id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-309488-8guapzke Dodd, R. Other emerging viral pathogens 2006-08-15 .txt text/plain 4365 215 49 Attention was refocused on viral infections as a result of the outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV) disease in the USA along with the recognition that it was transmissible by transfusion [1] . In 1997, Blackbourn and colleagues [17] reported on the detection of HHV-8 DNA in the blood of a seropositive blood donor; based on evidence of in vitro passage of the virus to allogeneic cells, the authors expressed concern about the potential for transmission by transfusion. This concern is based upon the historical fact that there have been periodic pandemics associated with the circulation of new strains of the virus in humans and the current outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which causes high mortality when it does infect humans [27] . Seroprevalence of human herpes virus 8 antibody in populations at high or low risk of transfusion, graft, or sexual transmission of viruses Molecular cloning and disease association of hepatitis G virus: a transfusion-transmissible agent ./cache/cord-309488-8guapzke.txt ./txt/cord-309488-8guapzke.txt