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2 Patients Acquired Zika Through Platelet Transfusion

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Medical News |
Physician's First Watch
August 18, 2016

Two patients in Brazil likely were infected with the Zika virus via platelet transfusion, according to a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The index patient donated platelets before developing symptoms. The donor later tested positive for the virus.

One of the patients who received platelets had primary myelofibrosis syndrome while the other had acute myeloid leukemia. Neither of these patients developed Zika symptoms.