Every day, hospitals throughout the U.S. transfuse blood or blood components, such as platelets, to save the lives of people who are in car crashes, and victims of fires and other emergencies.

In the developed world, most of the reported complications of transfusion have an immunological basis. Although the media and the public are worried about the infectious risks of transfusion ...

Abbye E. Alexander, Christopher J. Tellner, and Henry Norwood of Kaufman Dolowich LLP discuss issues regarding causes of ...

Bangladesh has detected a cluster of Zika virus cases for the first time, in a worrying development in a country that is ...

A mystery illness has caused dozens of deaths​ in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A "poisoning of a water source" may be a cause, the WHO says.

However, it is not always appropriate to expose the patient to further donated units with the associated risks of transfusion-transmitted disease if the hemolytic process is being well tolerated.

but there are reports of transmission by transfusion of contaminated blood, organ transplantation and transplacental transmission. Babesia and Bartonella are often suspected as co-infections with ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an extremely rare and fatal brain-wasting disease that's like a human version of "mad cow." ...

Less commonly, malaria can be transmitted through blood transfusion, organ transplant or the shared use of needles contaminated with blood, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease transmitted by the female Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. The same vector ...

On transfusion transmitted infection testing: basic to advance Bhopal: AIIMS Bhopal Department of Transfusion Medicine and ...