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 …

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 …

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

Transfusion has been tainted with the risk of contracting an infection–often severe–and fears
about this risk are still prevailing, in sharp contrast with the actual risk in Western countries …

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 …

Records of the transmission of bacterial infections by transfusion date back to the beginning
of organized blood banking. Despite tremendous strides in preventing viral infection through …

BACKGROUND: Emerging infections have been identified as a continuing threat to human
health. Many such infections are known to be transmissible by blood transfusion, while …

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

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 …

An emerging agent can threaten the safety of the blood supply. Drs. Morris Blajchman and
Eleftherios Vamvakas write that the risk of transfusion-transmitted infection is not static, as …