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Patient Dies After Contracting West Nile Virus via Blood Transfusion, Link Unclear

de Volkskrant17 September · 16:296 days ago

A patient who contracted the West Nile virus through a blood transfusion in August has died, according to the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). It remains unknown whether the virus caused the death. This individual is the fourth person in the Netherlands to die this year from a locally acquired infection.

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