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Re:Blood donors in Sweden get a text message when their bloo... by ptaipale on Saturday June 20, 2015 @06:07AM (#9749535)
In different countries, there are various reasons, some better than others. Chronic illnesses like hepatitis, having had gay sex, having lived in Britain in 1980's. These contribute some risk to donating blood.
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Re:Blood donors in Sweden get a text message when their bloo... by giarc on Saturday June 20, 2015 @11:20AM (#9750170)
Also having malaria, paying money or sex for drugs, lived in Africa for 6 months, ever had a blood transfusion, dura matter transplant... the list goes on. In Canada, every time you donate you answer about 13 questions on your own, then a nurse asks you about 10 "high risk" questions. You can tell they could recite them in their sleep, and I'm almost at the point where I could as well.
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