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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

One patient who’d acquired the virus through a transfusion lamented to The New York Times in 1993 that he had ... those who wear condoms or regularly test for sexually transmitted infections.

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

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 ...

Ralph Vassallo, incoming chair of the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies Transfusion Transmitted Disease Committee, said his group joins America’s Blood Centers and the ...

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