A changing climate may jeopardize global blood supply

Australia was hit by a blood shortage when an impending cyclone caused thousands of donations to be cancelled. A new study shows how a changing climate with extreme weather and new disease patterns risks threatening the blood donation chain. “It raises an important question about the challenges blood safety will face going forward,” says KI researcher Gustaf Edgren.

Climate disasters are disrupting blood supplies and increasing demand at the same time

Climate-fueled extreme weather is reducing blood donations and complicating transfusions just as more people are injured or displaced by storms, fires and floods.Rebecca Dzombak reports for The New York Times.In short:A new global analysis published in The Lancet Planetary Health finds that climate change is affecting every part of the blood supply system, from donor turnout to delivery logistics and transfusion safety.Events such as wildfires, …

Climate change threatens world’s supply of blood, study warns

The study is the first to look at how climate change affects each stage of the blood supply chain. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Climate Change Threatens World’s Supply of Blood, Study Warns

Climate change and increasingly extreme weather are taking a toll on global supplies of blood, endangering the lives of people with life-threatening injuries and conditions, a new study has found.

Blood supply will be another victim of the climate crisis

Bags of blood emergency blood type. Credit: Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Climate change will impact all aspects of life as we know it, including blood donation with a new review in The Lancet Planetary Health now suggesting that climate change poses serious risks to the safety, stability, and availability of the global blood supply. “As natural disasters intensify, disease patterns shift and health challenges climb, the research highlights the…

Increase in extreme weather events posing 'substantial risk' to blood supplies

The warning from researchers comes after Cyclone Alfred resulted in the cancellation of more than 3,500 blood donation appointments in Queensland and NSW.