Gestion of arboviral alerts: experience feedback from the Secproch working group of the French "Haut Conseil de la Sant é Publique" (2019-2021)

Transfus Clin Biol. 2021 Sep 22:S1246-7820(21)00474-2. doi: 10.1016/j.tracli.2021.09.008. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Secproch working group (for « sécurité des produits issus du corps humain ») was created in 2019 within the « Haut Conseil de la Santé Publique » (HCSP) for addressing all the questions related to labile blood products, organs, tissues, cells (OTC) and gametes issued from human body. It is notably in charge of the management of alerts regarding arbovirus infections. These infections due to arthropod-transmitted viruses are responsible for emergence and reemergence, notably in the context of global warming. This review relates the alerts taken into consideration by the Secproch group between 2019 and 2021 following three pathologies due to Flaviviridae: dengue, West Nile virus (WNV) infection and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). The dengue alerts have occurred in French Indies where the virus is endemic/epidemic, Reunion Island where the population was naïve until 2018 towards the virus, and the metropole where foci of autochthonous cases are observed sporadically. The WNV infection was responsible of both human and equine cases in 2019 in the South of France but with intensity much less than in 2018. At last, the TBE virus was at the origin of a cluster of about 40 cases in the Ain department following a contamination by crude non-pasteurized goat cheese. This review offers the opportunity to reevaluate the risks linked to these three viruses throu...
Source: Transfusion Clinique et Biologique - Category: Hematology Authors: Source Type: research