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by jopsen 3145 days ago
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.

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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.
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.

and MSR

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