Climate change and parasitic risk to the blood supply

Affiliations

• ¹ Canadian Blood Services, Microbiology, Donation Policy and Studies, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ² Division of Diagnostic and Applied Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ³ Blood Bank, Hospital Sírio-Libanês Blood Bank, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ⁴ Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
• ⁵ American Red Cross, Scientific Affairs, Holland Laboratories for the Biomedical Sciences, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
• ⁶ National Health Service, Blood and Transplant, Bristol, UK.
• ⁷ Canadian Blood Services, Epidemiology and Surveillance, Microbiology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁸ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁹ Department of Medical Affairs, Corporate Staff, Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.