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Originally Posted by highthief
People are getting their panties in a twist for nothing.
I can't donate blood. Why? Because I have spent too much time in the UK over the years, the land of the mad cow, and Canadian Blood Clinics preclude people who have spent a certain amount of time in the UK and parts of Europe from giving blood on the one in a 100 million chance we've picked up mad cow disease at some point in the last 20 years.
I think it's a silly decision on their part as the odds are very low and I'm not sure there's a lot of evidence for transmission of mad cow disease via blood transfusions, but I wouldn't suggest boycotting or closing blood clinics because they discriminate against Brits.
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Your more likely to catch vCJD from cows in the US than you are in the UK. Us Brits certainly don't stop each other donating because we might have picked up the disease. Your also more likely to catch rabies and the plague, but thats just a sidenote.
Does someone have any information about what kinds of testing they do for diseases in donated blood?
The whole issue is a bunch of students being hippies. Give them a slap.