Update WNV risk areas France

Safety warnings | Blood & Tissue | 09/10/2018

The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care was informed by the French authority, that in addition to the regions already known, further confirmed human WNV infections (meningitis/encephalitis) in the regions of Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var, Corsica and Monaco. have occurred.

It is therefore requested that appropriate attention be paid to this in the anamnesis discussions and donor selections.

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