Abstract
Arbovirus transmission risk from blood transfusion relates to the incidence of infection in the blood donor pool and the length of time that the blood of newly infected people remains infectious.1 Identification of 23 transfusion transmissions during the 2002 West Nile virus outbreak in midwestern USA and models estimating transfusion transmission risk as high as 4·7 per 10 000 donors in certain areas led to the realisation that high infection incidence during mosquito-borne arbovirus outbreaks creates considerable transfusion transmission risk despite viraemia of short duration.
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