file.newsgroup.med.58970 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION FACT SHEET
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
>My wife cannot donate blood because she has been to a malarial region
>in the past three years. In fact, she tried to have her bone marrow
>typed and they wouldn't even do that! Why?
>
The FDA, I believe. Rules say no blood or blood products donations
from anyone who has been in a malarial area for 3 years. I was a platelet
donor until my Thailand trip and my blood bank was very disappointed
to find out they couldn't use me for 3 years.
>
>When the secretary of state asked me if I wanted to donate my
>organs I said no because I figured that no one would want them
>given my history. Was I correct?
>
Not necessarily. The same rules may not apply to organ donation
as to blood donation. In fact, I'm sure they don't.
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