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Re: Giving Blood
Posted By: Darien, on host 141.154.185.61
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 12:22:17
In Reply To: Re: Giving Blood posted by TOM on Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 10:42:14:

> > My conclusion: the US blood donor screening is slow to react, and I wouldn't want to get a blood transfusion in the US. After all, I'd be 98% likely to catch SARS or WNV, if I've calculated the odds correctly.
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> Er? I'm pretty sure 98% of Americans who receive blood transfusions don't catch either of those. :-P Unless you meant something else by that?

Yeah, that's a very strange thing to say. I don't understand it at all. Unless, of course, it was one of those newfangled "jokes" I heard about on the teevee the other day...

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