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HHS Ships Blood Products to Puerto Rico in Response to Zika Outbreak

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2016.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced that it is arranging and funding shipments of blood products from the continental United States to Puerto Rico to ensure an adequate supply of safe blood for island residents as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico experiences active mosquito-borne Zika transmission.  The first batch of blood products arrived in Puerto Rico on Saturday, March 5.

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