Ross River virus in Australian blood donors: possible implications for blood transfusion safety.

CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that the yearly risk of collecting a RRV-infected blood donation in Australia is low and is at the lower range of previous risk modeling. The majority of Australian donor centers were not in areas known to be at the highest risk for RRV transmission, which was not taken into account in previous models based on notification data. Therefore, we believe that the risk of RRV transfusion transmission in Australia is acceptably low and appropriately managed through existing risk management, including donation restrictions and recall policies. PMID: 29350414 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Transfusion - January 19, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Faddy HM, Tran TV, Hoad VC, Seed CR, Viennet E, Chan HT, Harley R, Hewlett E, Hall RA, Bielefeldt-Ohmann H, Flower RLP, Prow NA Tags: Transfusion Source Type: research