West Nile Virus – an Emerging Transfusion-Transmissible Pathogen
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Summary Recently, some cases of transfusion-transmitted infections of West Nile virus (WNV) have been reported. As a member of the genus flavivirus, WNV may cause a febrile illness with meningoencephalitis. Since more than 95% of infections are asymptomatic, the virus can be transmitted by transfusion of blood from donors in the viremic phase. In Europe, infections in humans are very rare, but in North America the virus has spread through most states of USA and Canada. The epidemic started in New York in 1999, resulting in 149 clinically ill patients from 1999 to 2001 followed by a dramatic increase to more than 8,300 cases, including 182 deaths, in 2003. To our calculations, the risk for a donation to be contaminated with WNV in the USA ranged between 1:1,000 and 1:6,000 during summer and may be higher in certain regions. In the USA, PCR testing of approximately 6 million blood donations during June to December 2003 detected 818 viremic donors. In order to minimize the risk, German and Dutch guidelines require the rejection of donors returning from USA or Canada within the first 4 weeks after their return. From the medical point of view, this procedure seems appropriate to minimize the risk of transfusion-associated WNV infections with high efficiency and low expenditure.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it