Babesia screening for donor blood: An American Red Cross study
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#25EDP)
About 18 months ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began looking into screening blood donors for the parasite, Babesia microti. Officials say that B. microti is the highest-ranking pathogen that is transmitted by blood transfusion in the U.S. for which no donor screening is available. Scientists at the American Red Cross in Gaithersburg, MD and the ["]
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