From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION FACT SHEET
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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In article <1993Apr13.150018.641@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> dougb@ecs.comm.mot.com writes:

>My wife cannot donate blood because she has been to a malarial region
>in the past three years.  In fact, she tried to have her bone marrow
>typed and they wouldn't even do that!  Why?
>
The FDA, I believe.  Rules say no blood or blood products donations
from anyone who has been in a malarial area for 3 years.  I was a platelet
donor until my Thailand trip and my blood bank was very disappointed
to find out they couldn't use me for 3 years.

>
>When the secretary of state asked me if I wanted to donate my
>organs I said no because I figured that no one would want them
>given my history.  Was I correct?
>
Not necessarily.  The same rules may not apply to organ donation
as to blood donation.  In fact, I'm sure they don't.



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