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Reminder to donate blood, this is what allows medical professionals to save lives, be it in dramatic incidents such as this one, or in more mundane settings. U

Reminder to donate blood, this is what allows medical professionals to save lives, be it in dramatic incidents such as this one, or in more mundane settings. UK: https://my.blood.co.uk/ https://my.blood.co.uk/ US: http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood

maxerickson 9y ago
It can be worth checking if a regional health provider has their own donation network. The Red Cross does blood drives here but there is also a location in one of the local clinics that makes appointments. Much more convenient than a blood drive. The Red Cross has every day donation centers in larger cities, just not in as many places as health providers.
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tehlike 9y ago
I wanted to, but it sucks to be coming from a country which is in the "restricted donation" list. http://www.militaryblood.dod.mil/Donors/can_i_donate.aspx http://www.militaryblood.dod.mil/Donors/can_i_donate.aspx Good thing is i don't have a rare blood type.
- jopsen 9y ago
  That doesn't suck. I'm glad they don't want my blood, I really dislike vampires. I'm guessing it makes sense as a rough way to limit infectious deceases. You need only look to China to see how far something like AIDS can spread if you don't do blood donations right. If I recalls correctly they infected something like 50k people by accident. Notice, that the next infectious decease like AIDS might not have been discovered yet. Hence, why a lot of precautions around blood donations makes sense.
  - tehlike 9y ago
    I believe some of this for the europe related restrictions was due to mad cow, but i am not entirely sure. It was weird times for sure.
    - kaybe 9y ago
      Probably. In Germany you are unwanted if you were in UK in a similar timeframe, with Mad Cow Disease given as reason. By now we also have some Malaria risk areas in Greece and the Italian Po valley.
      - jopsen 9y ago
        and MSR but does this really exclude enough people to be problematic, if not... then it better to have too many restrictions..

maxerickson 9y ago

It can be worth checking if a regional health provider has their own donation network. The Red Cross does blood drives here but there is also a location in one of the local clinics that makes appointments. Much more convenient than a blood drive. The Red Cross has every day donation centers in larger cities, just not in as many places as health providers.

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tehlike 9y ago

I wanted to, but it sucks to be coming from a country which is in the "restricted donation" list. http://www.militaryblood.dod.mil/Donors/can_i_donate.aspx http://www.militaryblood.dod.mil/Donors/can_i_donate.aspx Good thing is i don't have a rare blood type.

jopsen 9y ago
That doesn't suck. I'm glad they don't want my blood, I really dislike vampires. I'm guessing it makes sense as a rough way to limit infectious deceases. You need only look to China to see how far something like AIDS can spread if you don't do blood donations right. If I recalls correctly they infected something like 50k people by accident. Notice, that the next infectious decease like AIDS might not have been discovered yet. Hence, why a lot of precautions around blood donations makes sense.
- tehlike 9y ago
  I believe some of this for the europe related restrictions was due to mad cow, but i am not entirely sure. It was weird times for sure.
  - kaybe 9y ago
    Probably. In Germany you are unwanted if you were in UK in a similar timeframe, with Mad Cow Disease given as reason. By now we also have some Malaria risk areas in Greece and the Italian Po valley.
    - jopsen 9y ago
      and MSR but does this really exclude enough people to be problematic, if not... then it better to have too many restrictions..