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SJSU suspends blood drives, citing FDA ban on donations by gay men
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 1/31/8 | Dana Hull

Posted on 01/31/2008 2:11:45 PM PST by SmithL

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To: SmithL

As an aside, this may be a boost to oxygen therapy artificial blood.

It has been problematic, because artificial blood may damage internal organs. However, on the plus side, it carries much more oxygen than does whole blood.

This matters, because not all surgery requiring blood needs for it to flow through the internal organs.

For example, a crushed hand is a very difficult microsurgery, and it is terribly hard to get oxygenated blood to the fingers through crushed capillaries, and get it out again. This often results in tissue death.

Leeches are even used to draw out the old blood in such cases, to allow fresh blood into the fingers.

But if the blood circulation to the hand could be bypassed, then artificial blood used instead of whole blood, the large infusion of oxygen to the tissues would extend the time in which repairs could be made.

Other uses could be in the large arteries in the leg, which if bypassed, could allow not just the artificial blood, but high doses of therapeutic medicines, far higher than the internal organs would tolerate. This could be a good treatment for phlebitis or blood clots, which often afflicts the legs. The extra oxygen, by itself would have strong regenerative effects.


41 posted on 01/31/2008 4:03:05 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: w1andsodidwe
Arthur Ashe the tennis champion.
42 posted on 01/31/2008 4:07:14 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine
Mexico recently I can’t donate blood either.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

By conincidence my husband and I went about an hour ago to donate blood at our local church.

Weren’t allowed!

Their excuse? Well...We had spent six months in Costa Rica and Panama and were a malaria risk. Imagine that? How dare they discriminate against a poor innocent mosquito! (sarc/off) :)

43 posted on 01/31/2008 4:13:31 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: mathurine
That is truly EVIL.
44 posted on 01/31/2008 4:43:14 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: SmithL

Homosexuals giving blood is like biological warfare... bioterrorism...

Think about that...


45 posted on 01/31/2008 5:06:53 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: SmithL

Political Correctness means ALWAYS having to say you’re sorry.


46 posted on 01/31/2008 5:10:41 PM PST by dhot
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To: Argus
"Simple solution. Just have separate blood supplies"

Just what I was thinking. You have your gay blood and straight blood. Give the gay blood to the board at SJSU.

47 posted on 01/31/2008 5:11:54 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: MediaMole

This is true.


48 posted on 01/31/2008 5:18:34 PM PST by Flashman_at_the_charge (There's no 'F' in 'Conservative GOP Candidates'.)
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To: John123

IF it had everything to do with statistics we would not have such HIGH benefits costs to cover the rumpers.....


49 posted on 01/31/2008 6:15:09 PM PST by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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To: eyedigress
You have your gay blood and straight blood. Give the gay blood to the board at SJSU.

Gee... I don't know... is it gonna make me talk with a lisp?

50 posted on 01/31/2008 7:07:41 PM PST by John123 ("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
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To: John123

I don’t know, yet I believe that would be the least of your worries.


51 posted on 01/31/2008 8:35:02 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: squidly

Hell, a member of my Kiwanis Club who runs our Blood Drive couldn’t give at the last one because he went to Mexico.


52 posted on 02/01/2008 11:03:30 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: SmithL
Great. Put people's lives at risk because the FDA doesn't want to put people's lives at risk.

Liberals are frikkin' batty.
53 posted on 02/01/2008 11:06:42 AM PST by LIConFem (Thompson. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter Lifetime ACU Rating: 92 (any combo will do, fellas))
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To: SmithL

Easiest way around this...take their blood and mark it for disposal. No fuss, no muss. What then? The gays going to demand their blood get infused into others?


54 posted on 02/01/2008 11:11:37 AM PST by Malsua
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To: SmithL

Here’s the SJSU campus news article:
http://www.thespartandaily.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=6b6ff445-da41-45ba-bb0d-6b4c39736d70

And here’s an exchange between readers of the article:

Bryan: “The thing is, HIV/AIDS is no longer a gay-exclusive disease.”

That is true.

Bryan: “HIV is just as rampant in heterosexuals as it is in homosexuals, especially in ‘minority races.’”

That is false,
unless nearly 2/3 of men are homosexual.
Using the same site you referenced:
“…MSM [men who have sex with men] accounted for 71% of all HIV infections among male adults and adolescents in 2005”
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/msm/resources/factsheets/msm.htm

Bryan: “About half of the people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 2005 were black: http://www.cdc.gov/omhd/AMH/factsheets/hiv.htm

That is true,
but it ignores the sexual orientation statistic and that for black men, the most common way of getting HIV is “having unprotected sex with another man who has HIV”

Bryan: “So why the same discrimination against gay men? It simply doesn’t make sense.”

Perhaps you’re correct. The blood drives should not be so concerned with whether a man has had sex with another man. It would be more precise to discriminate against EVERYONE who has had anal intercourse, since that is an even greater risk factor than someone’s sexual orientation.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa22.htm

http://www.fumento.com/comment.html


55 posted on 02/04/2008 3:30:38 PM PST by E-Mat (Made in China = Arms for Tyrants)
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To: SmithL
Can anyone imagine what it would be like to live in a country ruled by university professors? I think Swift had a good idea, in one of Gulliver's later travels. We'd be funding a huge energy project to learn how to squeeze sunlight out of cucmbers.
56 posted on 02/04/2008 3:45:58 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Rummyfan
TS! they want to put the blood supply at risk just to ease theri feelings?

Why not? The homosexuals wiped out an entire generation of hemophiliacs this way already, so maybe they think they are secretly trying to improve the gene pool.

57 posted on 02/04/2008 3:48:07 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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