Extreme weather disasters, increasing as the planet warms, can curb blood donations while increasing demand, a new analysis ...

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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.

Lifeblood researcher and UniSC Adjunct Research Fellow Dr. Elvina Viennet said this threatened the safety and supply of life-saving blood products crucial for surgeries, trauma care, chronic ...

The study is the first globally to look at how climate change can affect each stage of the blood supply chain, based on a review of international studies. Climate change also means many diseases ...