Ah yeah, that sounds about right, the 5 years incubation time and so on. Thanks!
Comment on Giving blood exception
otter@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
My guess is that it’s related to mad cow disease, and it hasn’t been updated in a while? I couldn’t find anything when I searched
Here is ours, and the history behind some of the changes blood.ca/…/changes-donation-criteria-blood-donati…
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 10 months ago
Nighed@sffa.community 10 months ago
Mad cow disease can take decades to have an effect. If you are some infected meat and have the wrong genetics you could wind up with a sponge for a brain 30 years later.
Prions are terrifying.
AmidFuror@kbin.social 10 months ago
The five years is just due to cumulative risk. Someone decided to make that the cutoff.
Papanca@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I am not allowed to give blood, because i once got a blood transfusion in the eighties and i have a tiny, tiny risk of infecting people with mad cow disease. I only found out when i decided to give blood some years back and found out i am not allowed to.
Papanca@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And to clarify; i live in Europe
khannie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Same. Weirdly they used to take my blood then decided that it wasn’t OK any more. Didn’t know that it was a change in policy because of mad cow.
AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That happened to me, but now they are taking it again.