From an article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704792104575264600619273586.html?mod=rss_Health
The article talks about various threats to the blood supply, methods of screening blood, pathogen-reduction technology, and screening of potential donors.
"We learned from HIV that we have to react aggressively to every next potential threat," says Michael Busch, director of the Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco and a member of a federally funded group studying whether the retrovirus XMRV, which has been linked to chronic fatigue syndrome, poses a threat to the blood supply.
The article talks about various threats to the blood supply, methods of screening blood, pathogen-reduction technology, and screening of potential donors.