TTD I: Emerging Agents' Effects on the Blood Supply
Program Code: 5004-S
Saturday, October 21, 2006
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM (ET)

MODERATOR
David Leiby, PhD, American Red Cross

SPEAKERS
David Leiby, PhD, American Red Cross
Ritchard Cable, MD, American Red Cross Blood Services, New England Div
Paul Contestable, BS, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Brad Biggerstaff, PhD, CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases

DESCRIPTION
Vector borne agents of disease have an increasingly significant impact on blood safety. Many of these agents are emergent, posing new and unique challenges to prevent their transmission. This session will review those agents responsible for Chagas? disease, babesiosis, malaria and dengue fever, and the likelihood of their transmission. Thus, while all vector borne, these agents warrant consideration as separate entities in need of novel intervention strategies.