Study highlights implications of influenza pandemics on blood su...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 12/08/2009 - 23:00

(Wiley-Blackwell) A German research team has 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.

Their study is published today in the journal Transfusion.

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