The agency's sweeping recommendation Friday underscores concerns within the medical community about the still relatively unknown virus, which has spread rapidly by travel throughout the U.S. this summer. Zika-carrying mosquitoes have also arrived in parts of southern Florida this month.
“There's tremendous uncertainty,” Dr. Peter Marks, head of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a call with reporters.
Several local blood banks, including in Tampa, Atlanta, and Houston, have already implemented Zika screening procedures.
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