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Re:Man donated blood every week for 60 years and helped save... by boznz on Saturday May 12, 2018 @04:17PM (#17055820)
Regular Blood donor in the UK but cannot give blood in NZ because of mad cow disease.. Even though I've been vegetarian for over 35 years!
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Re:Man donated blood every week for 60 years and helped save... by maxerickson on Saturday May 12, 2018 @07:35PM (#17056588)
What it amounts to is that there isn't really a shortage of donors (there are brief local shortages). So they are optimizing away really small risks.
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