I cannot donate blood here in our own country because of the years I lived in Germany and I think the lack of a test for mad cow disease.
And I used to donate regularly, having a somewhat rarer type (B+) that they were itching for.
Yeah, I (O-) can't donate here because of three months spent in England, and also couldn't donate previously due to having an actively bisexual boyfriend & being under 110 pounds. The American Red Cross does or did NOT have adequate screening measures in place, compared with Britain's. Instead of adopting adequate screening measures after HIV-infecting some hemophiliacs and such, they just came up with their high-risk-communities bans... so donors could just lie.
p.s. as far as I know there's still no good test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease/Mad Cow in a living person but there is a filter to remove the prions (damaged, lethal proteins) from donated blood, no idea how foolproof: http://medgadget.com/2008/04/prion_filter_…
And I used to donate regularly, having a somewhat rarer type (B+) that they were itching for.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?con…
http://salem-news.com/articles/june022012/…
Highly doubt the Syrian government would be stupid enough to change tactics now.