makes me really mad Options

[princess2113]

if you have lived in countries, like Germany, for more than i think its 4 months you cant donate blood to most blood providers...i dont get it...they dont let me donate b/c i mite have Mad Cow...i never ate meat in Germany, im vegetarian...do u think its right? i mean allll these ppl need blood, like right after 9/11, no wonder theres a blood shortage...almost every1 willing to give can't...this elimates like almost all service people n tons of ppl....what do u think? shoud ppl that have lived in European countries n coutries with bad water still be able to give?

[EmeraldKnight]

DUDE! theres a guy in here named M@d Cow! HAHAHA! anyway one question. whats Mad Cow Disease?

-Flip-

Mad Cow disease (properly called bovine spongiform encephalopathy.)

Main Entry: bovine spon·gi·form encephalopathy

Pronunciation: -'sp&n-ji-"form-
Function: noun
: a fatal disease of cattle affecting the nervous system, resembling or identical with scrapie of sheep and goats, and probably caused by a prion transmitted by infected tissue in food -- abbreviation BSE; called also mad cow disease

from www.m-w.com

no they were right...if w/o blood u are definitly going to die...y not give them blood to try n c if it works, or to hold them until u can get another blood kind...i mean it IS worth a try...id rather my doctor try, then go o look we have a vegetarian but nah she mite have mad cow...and then me die b/c they wont even try

But this is about accepting blood to be stored and possibly shipped to hospitals, not about using the blood

Unless there was a blood shortage, I would want to be as safe as possible

u never know if its 100% sure...u can get a LOT of diseases from blood...they screen the blood, but they dont alwayz find everything and when they question u to see if they are going to accept your blood, many people lie...or make a mistake...i dunno y u wuld lie, but it happens...and then it goes to screening n b/c the person said something like they havnt had a certain virus, it doesnt get checked for that or maybe not as closely...so yeah

Even if it isnt 100%, wouldnt you want the odds to be in your favor as much as possible?

the only problem is that blood cant be proven 100% safe, blood tests are 98% accurate [im pretty sure] so in that 2% chance, if you're wrong, someone dies. why take the risk? but since Mad COw Disease isnt spread thru blood, i guess it wouldnt make a difference. unless youre checkin for STDs

Exactly, unless its absolutely crucial that blood be taken, you want to be as safe as possible.. ok, so its 98% safe.. would you care if you were the 2% that received an disease from it?