At 01:12 PM Thursday 3/14/2002, Mary Coleman wrote:
>I am very upset with Blood Assurance and don't know if I will every give
>blood again.

I am also upset, not with Blood Assurance specifically, but with the
rediculous FDA regulations controlling blood donation.  Until two years
ago, my wife and I were regular blood donors.  Now we are told we cannot
give blood - ever - because we used to live in England!  This is in case I
have mad-cow disease (extremely unlikely) and in case this disease might be
spread by blood transfusion (also extremely unlikely).  Also in my
department are two people who cannot give blood because they have been to
Haiti, one who cannot give blood because he has been to Costa Rica, and one
who cannot give blood because she doesn't weigh enough.

No wonder they are short of blood!
Mike

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