[Clive]

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[Starwind]

"The decision to defer men who have had sex with men from donating blood is one of many deferrals pertaining to activities which put donors at risk of hepatitis or HIV. The basic premise for this deferral criterion is that the incidence of HIV is much higher in males who have had sex with other males than it is in individuals having exclusively heterosexual sex."

Now if we could just teach this concept to the airport security people to defer boarding 15-40 year old Arab males...

[sarasmom]

good grief.

AIDs scare in blood supply, like that is a new topic.The Red Cross does not really want me to donate my blood because I am at a possible risk for "mad cow".The IRC and the ARC said that would decimate donations so the "overly precautious" scientists were shot down.

Our leaders believe it is more important to play russian roulette in the name of "tolerance" than it is to safeguard our blood supply.

PC KILLS