Blood Products for Spanish Influenza: A Future H5N1 Treatment?

  1. Susan J. Logtenberg, MD; and
  2. Henk J. Bilo, MD, PhD
  1. From Isala Clinics, 8025 AB, Zwolle, the Netherlands.

    TO THE EDITOR:

    We would like to add to the discussion in Luke and colleagues' meta-analysis (1) of historic literature about the possible beneficial effect of transfusion on the clinical outcome of patients with Spanish influenza. We suggest that the effect might not be due to the specific neutralizing effects of anti-influenza antibodies in the …

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