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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 83.98.9.4

Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 05:13 pm:

These blood service places, they keep saying how desperate they are for people to donate blood, but if you walk in with a couple of Tesco carrier bags full, they freak out!

Barbara Roden (Nebuly)
Username: Nebuly

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 216.232.189.45

Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 05:37 pm:

I used to donate blood to the Canadian Red Cross (despite my aversion to needles), but can't now, because I lived in Britain during the time of the tainted beef/BSE scare.

Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 83.98.9.4

Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 07:39 pm:

So did everyone in Britain (over a certain age) but we can still give blood

Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 83.98.9.4

Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 07:40 pm:

As long as it's not in carrier bags

Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.17.14.133

Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 07:51 pm:

Am I allowed to give others' blood, if it's clean and fresh from its original containers?

Barbara Roden (Nebuly)
Username: Nebuly

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 216.232.189.45

Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 07:55 pm:

Here's what the Canada Blood Services website has to say about people potentially exposed to CJD donating blood:

quote:
People are not eligible to donate blood or plasma if they have spent a cumulative total of three months or more in the United Kingdom (U.K.) between 1980, and 1996, or if they have spent a cumulative total of three months or more in France between 1980, and 1996, or if they have spent a cumulative total of five years or more in Western Europe outside the U.K. or France since 1980. In addition, people are not eligible to donate blood or plasma if they have had a blood transfusion or received medical treatment with a product made from blood in the U.K., France or Western Europe since 1980.

Since I lived in England from 1992 to 1997 I'm ineligible under the Canada Blood Service guidelines. I suppose if Britain adopted the same stance, and had a minimum donor age of 17 (as here in Canada), and left 1996 as the upper exclusion date, there wouldn't be anyone there eligible to donate blood except a few foreigners.

Matthew_fell (Matthew_fell)
Username: Matthew_fell

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 216.232.189.45

Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 08:06 pm:

. . . I suppose if Britain adopted the same stance, and had a minimum donor age of 17 (as here in Canada), and left 1996 as the upper exclusion date, there wouldn't be anyone there eligible to donate blood except a few foreigners. . . .

There'd likely be fewer mad cows (sorry, chavs) wandering the streets, though.

Christopher

Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 83.98.9.4

Posted on Friday, August 08, 2008 - 09:56 am:

That is possibly the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard. Maybe a dozen people possibley contracted CJD and there was never any definite proof where it came from.

Simple test to see if you contracted CJD before 1996...

Has your brain calcified into a sponge causing you to die horribly?

If Yes, there is a channce you contracted it.

If No, there isn't.

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