Blood donor selection is crucial for ensuring safe blood supply. A well-designed donor selection system helps in maintaining donor engagement by minimizing unnecessary exclusion while safeguarding ...

Hamilton, ON (September 25, 2006) -- Thanks to the many blood-safety interventions introduced since 1984, the overall risk for most transfusion-transmitted infections has become exceedingly small.

In the developed countries, transfusion transmitted infections carry an extremely low risk, while the risk of immunological complications of blood transfusion is somewhat higher.

Thalassemia advocacy group calls for standardized blood screening to prevent transfusion-transmitted infections, with legal and health expert support.

Transfusion-Transmitted Infections (TTIs): Infections that can be transmitted from donor to recipient through the transfusion of blood or blood components. Seroprevalence: ...

Feb. 5, 2004 -- Blood transfusion may be a mode of transmitting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), according to a case report and public health study and an animal study published in the ...

An experimental test for the parasite that causes babesiosis was able to prevent the disease from infecting people through blood transfusion, according to a new study of nearly 90,000 U.S. blood ...

[2] Seroprevalence of transfusion transmitted infection among blood donors at Jijiga blood bank, Eastern Ethiopia: retrospective 4 years study. BMC Research Notes (2016).