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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11130

29 July 2014
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health
Hepatitis E virus - report calls for screening

Brussels, 28/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - The results of a study on donated blood, published on Monday 28 July in the medical journal The Lancet to mark World Hepatitis Day, raises the question of bringing in systematic screening for blood transfusions in Europe, with the hepatitis E virus, which can lead to liver disease, detected in 79 samples of donated blood out of the 225,000 in Europe. “Systematic screening of donated blood for hepatitis E should be brought in regions where the virus is...

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