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West Nile fever monitoring: First cases reported in EU for 2018 season

News - 29 Jun 2018

In the past week, the first human cases of West Nile fever have been reported in the EU for the current transmission season.

  • Blood safety
  • EU/EEA
  • Europe
  • Surveillance
  • West Nile virus infection

Hepatitis E and blood donation safety in selected European countries: A shift to screening?

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Apr 2017 - Euro Surveill. - 22(16):30514

Domanović, D., Tedder, R., Blumel, J., Zaaijer, H., Gallian, P., Niederhauser, C., Sauleda Oliveras, S., O’Riordan, J., Boland, F., Harritshoj, L., Nascimento, M.S.J., Ciccaglione, A.R., Politis, C., Adlhoch, C., Flan, B., Oualikene-Gonin, W., Rautmann, G., Strengers, P., Hewitt, P.

  • Blood safety
  • Europe
  • Hepatitis E
  • Surveillance

Publication

Risk of transmission of Ebola virus via donated blood and other substances of human origin in the EU

Technical report - 6 Oct 2014

This technical report assesses the risk of Ebola virus transmission through substances of human origin and offers guidelines on the safety of donations where the potential donors are travellers returning from Ebola-affected countries, people exposed to Ebola virus or patients who have recovered from the disease.

Risk of transmission of Ebola virus via donated blood and other substances of human origin in the EU - EN - [PDF-68.15 KB]
  • Blood safety
  • Ebola haemorrhagic fever
  • Ebola outbreak - West Africa
  • Scientific advice
  • Substance of human origin
  • Western Africa

Blood supply under threat

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Apr 2013 - Nat Clim Chang - 3(5)

Semenza, J.C., Domanović, D.

  • Blood safety
  • Climate change
  • Emerging disease

Sensitivity to biases of case-control studies on medical procedures, particularly surgery and blood transfusion, and risk of creutzfeldt-jakob disease

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Jul 2012 - Neuroepidemiology - 39(1)

De Pedro Cuesta, J., Ruiz Tovar, M., Ward, H., Calero, M., Smith, A., Verduras, C.A., Pocchiari, M., Turner, M.L., Forl F., Palm, D., Will, R.G.

  • Blood safety
  • Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)

Assessing the risk of a community outbreak of hepatitis A on blood safety in Latvia, 2008

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Aug 2010 - Euro Surveill. - 15(33)

Perevoscikovs, J., Lenglet, A., Lucenko, I., Steinerte, A., Hallstrom, L.P., Coulombier, D.

  • Blood safety
  • Epidemic
  • Epidemiology
  • Hepatitis A
  • Latvia

Surveillance and disease data for West Nile virus infections

Surveillance and disease data for West Nile virus infections

  • Blood safety
  • Surveillance
  • West Nile virus infection

About the seasonal surveillance of West Nile virus infections

The data should inform the blood safety authorities of areas with ongoing transmissions. According to the EU law, donors should be differed/tested.

  • Blood safety
  • Preparedness
  • Surveillance
  • West Nile virus infection
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