Testing for Zika virus in blood donors finds few infections — at a cost of about $5.3 million each
The screening cost works out to about $5.3 million for each positive unit the Red Cross pulled from the system.
An expensive screening program designed to keep the Zika virus out of the Red Cross’ blood supply has caught fewer than a dozen infected donations, a new study published Wednesday revealed.
The program, which costs roughly $137 million a year to operate, detected only eight units that tested positive for the virus between June 2016 and September 2017. And half of those units contained Zika
