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There are fairly silly exclusions to donating blood. I was recently (but apparently no longer, thanks to new rules?) blocked from donating blood because I spent
by progman32 6y ago
There are fairly silly exclusions to donating blood. I was recently (but apparently no longer, thanks to new rules?) blocked from donating blood because I spent too much time in Europe. Would be unfortunate to gate this care on such eligibility.
- s1artibartfast 6y agothis seems like an example of a good solution being the enemy of the great one. I don't think anyone is suggesting that simple bloodwork would be disallowed from other sources and this could be a good incentive.
- tzs 6y agoYou were probably blocked because of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (AKA human bovine spongiform encephalopathy AKA human mad cow disease). The US recently removed the block for this on: • people who were stationed with the military or lived on a base in Europe from 1980-1996, and • people who lived in Europe for five years or more from 1980 to the present, except for two exceptions. Those are people who lived in Ireland or France for 5 years or more cumulatively from 1980-2001, and people who lived in the UK for 3 months or more cumulatively from 1980-1996. Canada, New Zealand, Poland, Finland and the Czech Republic have similar rules, according to Wikipedia.