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Leveraging the U.S. blood supply to detect emerging viral threats

2026-02-06 public and global health Title + abstract only
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Emerging infectious diseases often circulate undetected until they cause clinical illness, creating serious risks for public health and biosecurity. The U.S. blood supply, with millions of routinely collected and quality-controlled donations, offers an untapped national resource for proactive pathogen surveillance. We propose integrating metagenomic sequencing (MGS) into existing blood and plasma collection workflows to detect novel or unexpected viruses in deidentified residual samples. This ap...

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