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Blood supply under threat

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Europe should take action to prevent contamination of blood products by emerging infectious diseases as the climate warms.

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Figure 1: Reported cases of West Nile fever, as of November 2012.
Figure 2: Current known distribution of the Asian Tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), as of September 2012.

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  1. Jan C. Semenza and Dragoslav Domanović are at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Tomtebodavägen 11A, SE-171 83 Stockholm, Sweden,

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Semenza, J., Domanović, D. Blood supply under threat. Nature Clim Change 3, 432–435 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1867

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