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[Ravemaster Rich]

Originally posted by Strikemaster
I can give you a "real world" problem with BSE /vCJD right now, and that is blood donation. I spent a few *months* in Britain and Germany during my time in the USAF. Recent changes in donor regulations now ban me as a donor, due to possible exposure to BSE.

So, I got that going for me. Can't donate blood to save lives, and my own life has an infinitesimally small chance of terminating with vCJD. If this keeps up, I can't be considered as a organ donor on my demise.

What a load of utter nonsense. What's next? Banning smokers in case residual nicotine in the blood gives people cancer? Banning stressed people in case adrenaline in the blood gives the receiver a heart attack?

All the scientific evidence I have seen suggests your life now has the same infinitesimally (damn that's hard to type) small chance of terminating with CJD as it did before you came to Europe.

Rich :¬)