[tehlike]

I wanted to, but it sucks to be coming from a country which is in the "restricted donation" list.

http://www.militaryblood.dod.mil/Donors/can_i_donate.aspx

Good thing is i don't have a rare blood type.

[jopsen]

That doesn't suck.

I'm glad they don't want my blood, I really dislike vampires.

I'm guessing it makes sense as a rough way to limit infectious deceases. You need only look to China to see how far something like AIDS can spread if you don't do blood donations right. If I recalls correctly they infected something like 50k people by accident.

Notice, that the next infectious decease like AIDS might not have been discovered yet. Hence, why a lot of precautions around blood donations makes sense.

[tehlike]

I believe some of this for the europe related restrictions was due to mad cow, but i am not entirely sure. It was weird times for sure.

[kaybe]

Probably. In Germany you are unwanted if you were in UK in a similar timeframe, with Mad Cow Disease given as reason.

By now we also have some Malaria risk areas in Greece and the Italian Po valley.

[jopsen]

and MSR

but does this really exclude enough people to be problematic, if not... then it better to have too many restrictions..