US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) increases US blood monitoring:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the US blood supply is "faced increasingly with new and re-emerging infectious disease challenges". Though the CDC is increasing its surveillance to protect against new blood contaminants, it regards haemophiliacs as the best early indicators of a problem, due to their use of substantial amounts of human blood-derived clotting factors.