Implications of influenza pandemics on blood supplies

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 10:44 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have examined data on supply and demand for blood transfusions against a computer simulation of an influenza pandemic, and discovered that a severe pandemic scenario could quickly lead to a deficit of up to 96,000 red blood cell transfusion units in Germany alone, creating potentially fatal outcomes.

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