The Food and Drug Administration has ordered all
blood collection centers in Florida's Miami-Dade and Broward counties
to stop taking in blood as state health department officials continue to
investigate four possible cases of local transmission of the Zika
virus.
In a statement posted on its website
on Wednesday, the FDA said blood centers should stop collecting blood
in the two counties until they can implement testing for the Zika virus
in each unit of blood collected, or until they can put in place
technology that can kill pathogens in collected blood.
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Source: NBC News
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