> Basically, they try to cover EVERY disorder that could be transmitted by blood. There are tons of things here that can disqualify you, and I'm not sure if you just omitted a pile of them...

I omitted a pile of them.

As for SARS, I'm sure the reason there were no questions about that were better than "slow to react." One, they might have covered that disease further down the chain (I bailed on the very first step, so I don't know the others were before you actually get to give blood). Two, they might be testing the blood for that themselves. Three, whatever the process of handling the blood is would screen out things like SARS anyway. As I said, mad cow disease is one of several slow-acting viruses that are extremely difficult to detect for the first several years after they are contracted.