020: Pathogen Inactivation with Jeff McCullough
Blood Bank Guy Essentials Podcast
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The Future of Bloodborne Infectious Diseases
There's a lot of data for both of these technologies showing how many viral particles per mil they will kill. And there are some organisms for which the kill levels are different for the two different technologies. Both of these technologies, I think, will kill something like 10 to the 6th particles of HIV per mil or 4 blood. But one of the arguments that's also used is what kill levels are likely to be needed because we're talking here about apparently healthy individuals who walk into a blood center and can pass all of our criteria.
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