On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 06:16:59 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I hope anyone reading who doesn't donate will at least consider >> donating. > > I used to9, but I'm no longer allowed to. In the UK, anyone who received > a transfusion before 1981 is no longer able to donate, I received blood > in December 1980. > > It's something to do with CJD/Mad Cow disease, no jokes about the wife > please... she may read this and prove them right! > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Excuse for the day: daemons did it >
We have the same limitations here and it is about Mad Cow. (Not 'THE Mad Cow' you crazy Brit!) ;-)