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Old 09-09-2004, 04:44 AM   #61
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Yeah, the Britain ban goes on here also - seems pretty arbitrary to me. IMO, mad cow disease is vastly overrated as a threat - of course, I wouldn't want to get it from tainted blood, either. Our gov't is still paying out money to people who got Hep C from blood transfusions.

There's also a requirement that says you cannot donate if you've been in prison for more than 72 hours - that one always makes me laugh. So many of the questions are direct, but this one is oblique yet so totally obvious. Why don't they just ask, "have you ever been raped in prison?" Maybe that's too insensitive.
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Old 09-09-2004, 05:17 AM   #62
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I'm a nurse, I can and have take peoples blood, no problem but I don't donate very often, only a couple of times, I just never really thought about ...
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Old 09-10-2004, 02:36 AM   #63
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Yeah, the Britain ban goes on here also - seems pretty arbitrary to me. IMO, mad cow disease is vastly overrated as a threat - of course, I wouldn't want to get it from tainted blood, either. Our gov't is still paying out money to people who got Hep C from blood transfusions.

There's also a requirement that says you cannot donate if you've been in prison for more than 72 hours - that one always makes me laugh. So many of the questions are direct, but this one is oblique yet so totally obvious. Why don't they just ask, "have you ever been raped in prison?" Maybe that's too insensitive.
So they ban British blood in Canada too! Is it banned elswhere? anyone know?
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Old 09-10-2004, 07:39 AM   #64
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Yeah, I heard its banned everywhere except England [img]smile.gif[/img]
Its that damn mad cow desiese, its quite severe over there aparently..Anyone want to expand???
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Old 09-10-2004, 09:19 PM   #65
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Oh, I don't think I'm underweight either [img]smile.gif[/img] , even though my BMI is 17.9 or so. I'm not skinny, just slender. So BMI is not all that accurate either, but I do think they use it when checking people up for blood donation. Weight alone says nothing...
BMI isn't that great an indicator. According to that I should be 9ft 6ins tall.
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Old 09-10-2004, 09:24 PM   #66
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Yeah, I heard its banned everywhere except England [img]smile.gif[/img]
Its that damn mad cow desiese, its quite severe over there aparently..Anyone want to expand???
What?? Even in Scotland????????

The only Mad Cow we've got is Thatcher!
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