July 9, 2018
FDA: US will no longer perform Zika tests on individual blood donations
Editor's Note
The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on July 6 announced that individual blood donations no longer need to be screened for Zika virus, “unless there is an increased risk of local mosquito-borne transmission of Zika virus in a specific geographic area that would trigger individual donation testing in that location.”
The FDA now recommends blood establishments run Zika tests on pooled donations.
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