The tragedy of transfusion-associated hepatitis and HIV spurred a decades-long overhaul of
the regulatory oversight and practice of blood transfusion. Consequent to improved donor …

Blood transfusion is remarkably safe in high-income countries (HICs), where safeguards
have long protected the blood supply against the major transfusion transmissible infections …

Blood transfusions are vital components of modern medical treatment to which there is no
viable alternative despite efforts to create artificial blood. Each year thousands of lives are …

Background In August 2009, a group from the AABB (Stramer et al., Transfusion 2009; 99:
1S–29S, Emerging Infectious Disease Agents and their Potential Threat to Transfusion …

A spectrum of blood-borne infectious agents is transmitted through transfusion of infected
blood donated by apparently healthy and asymptomatic blood donors. The diversity of …

Transfusion-transmitted infections remain among the most-feared complications of
allogeneic blood transfusion. Thanks to several strategies including donor screening and …

Although the risk of transfusion-transmitted infections today is lower than ever, the supply of
safe blood products remains subject to contamination with known and yet to be identified …

In general, the risk of transfusion-transmitted infections has been greatly reduced today.
However, blood-borne bacterial and parasitic infections and emerging infections transmitted …

Approaches to understand and quantify risks of infectious and other complications resulting
from blood transfusion have evolved substantially over the past five decades. While concern …

THE BLOOD SUPPLY IN THE UNITED States and other developed countries has never
been as safe as it is now. During the past several decades, there have been dramatic …