Comments on: Blood Donors Encourage Others To Join https://bernews.com/2010/06/blood-donors-encourage-others-to-join/ Bermuda's #1 source for 24/7 breaking news, photos & videos Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:24:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 By: V https://bernews.com/2010/06/blood-donors-encourage-others-to-join/#comment-3793 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:35:32 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=15543#comment-3793 If they would lift the ban on people donating blood who resided in the UK during the “Mad Cow” (vCJD)epidemic of the 1980′s and 1990′s, I am sure that they would have a lot more donors!

I found a quote from an expert:
“There is not a lot of evidence that you can get this disease from blood transfusions,” says bioethicist Art Caplan, who heads the nation’s top blood advisory panel. “But there is a lot of evidence that as you start taking people out of the pool of donors, you may wind up with a shortage of blood that can do harm.”

The funny thing is that people who live in the UK can donate blood with no problem.
Food for thought…

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