Emerging Pathogens: Something is Blowing in the Wind

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

This session was held on 12 December 2020, during the virtual ISBT 2020 congress.

The Emerging Pathogens: Something is Blowing in the Wind session included the following presentations:

1. Jan Semenza: Cascading risks from climate change for infectious diseases in Europe
2. Steven Drews: A case series of inactivated Japanese Encephalitis virus vaccination associated with positive West Nile virus blood screening nucleic acid tests
3. Maria Costafreda: Detection of non-enveloped HEV virions in serum of infected blood donors
4. Bryan Spencer: Long-term trends in Malaria deferrals at a large us blood collector, and implications for other travel-associated infectious risks
5. David Leiby: A comparison of strategies to mitigate risk of Chagas Disease in non-endemic countries

Moderator: David Leiby

After the presentations, there was a questions and answers session of about 20 minutes, which is also included in the recording.