Correlation of West Nile Virus Incidence in Donated Blood with West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease Rates, United States, 2010–2012
Edouard Betsem, Zhanna Kaidarova, Susan L. Stramer, Beth Shaz, Merlyn Sayers, German LeParc, Brian S. Custer, Michael P. Busch
, and Edward L. Murphy
Author affiliations: University of Yaounde 1 Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Yaounde, Cameroon (E. Betsem); Agence de Médecine Préventive, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso (E. Betsem); Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, USA (E. Betsem, Z. Kaidarova, B. Custer, M.P. Busch, E.L. Murphy); American Red Cross, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA (S.L. Stramer); New York Blood Center, New York, New York, USA (B. Shaz); Carter BloodCare, Bedford, Texas, USA (M. Sayers); University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (M. Sayers); OneBlood, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA (G. LeParc); University of California, San Francisco (B. Custer, M.P. Busch, E.L. Murphy)
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Figure 2. Rate of West Nile virus (WNV)–positive blood donations by month, United States, June–October 2010–2012. Overall, 640 WNV-positive donations were confirmed by nucleic acid testing in 10,107,853 screened donations. Positive donations collected during the months of January–May (1 in April 2010) and November–December (3 in November 2012) are not shown.
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