Posted on 03/13/2012 10:54:19 AM PDT by Nachum
The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) is seeking comments on designing a pilot program to create “alternative donor deferral criteria” for gay men. Currently, men who have had sex with other men (MSM) since 1977 cannot donate blood due to “higher levels of certain transfusion-transmissible infections” among that population, the notice explains. Members of Congress’s interest and increased accuracy among donor testing have made the department reconsider the ban. “[T]he increased effectiveness of donor testing for [Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)], [Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)], syphilis and other infectious agents has greatly enhanced
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Good point - it would probably be deliberately switched for a political reason as well.
Focus, people. This is in Great Britain, where humans who were alive in the late eighties are allowed to give blood. There would be no blood banks in England if they followed our rules.
Note, please, that in the USA, no one who was in England, or across the channel in Western Europe, for more than a few weeks in the late 80s, is even ALLOWED to give blood due to the mad cow scare there.
In our country, not a single Brit who was alive then could give blood here.
My blood is banned in the USA for life because I lived in Europe then.
In terms of gay, in this country if a man admits to one count of sex with another man he is forbidden to give blood for life too.
I am similarly banned, though not for serving my country, just for living over there. That rule is so ignorant that it should be changed WAY before the USA adds homosexuals to the blood donor list.
Anyone in Europe (I didn’t know it extended as far as Turkey) during the years where there was a mad cow scare in England is banned. Yet very few of those nations import any British beef. It makes no sense.
In short, MSM!! Main Stream Maggots who are affectionately called faggots?
Men Sans Manhood?
The rest would be relly, really X-rated!
I keep hearing among the sodomite community that their goal in therapy is to have an “undetectable viral load” - meaning HIV can’t be detected in the blood, but is still present.
How’s that for covert infection of the populous?
“Banking your blood” in many instances just means getting credit for the blood you bank - give a pint, get a pint, but not necessarily yours.
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