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Old 12-25-2011, 01:16 PM   #32890
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
And excellent thing to do. Until artificial blood is perfected, blood donations are a vital part of modern medicine.

I'm somewhere between 45 and 50 donations at the moment.
The American Red Cross put me on "permanent hiatus" as a blood donor. Too much time in the UK since 1980. Apparently my blood might bear the taint of BSE. Sigh. I understand they don't want a repeat of the AIDS debacle, but this is an overreaction, to put it mildly.
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