Why British People Can't Donate Blood in America

[@geniusgamer3840]

"Ending the practice of feeding cows to other cows was a solid step in the right direction" *You don't say*

[@thelambsauce1701]

Hm maybe cannibalism is.....not good?

[@idontwanttopickone]

Americans haven't learnt the BSE lesson. Look up how pigs are fed waste from the Vegas strip. They are given everything from pig meat to used condoms. It's pretty well documented on KZbin.

[@louiseng7272]

I saw a documentary about cannabalism in Papua New Guinea and the natives developed symptoms similar to mad cow disease....this link is talking about that original documentary. kzbin.info/www/bejne/maaWkpSPormXnMk

[@dankdreamz]

What you may be missing is when looking at history we have the our current perspectives to weigh against. If we were living in the period we are looking at we would not have the insight we currently have. This leads people to mistakenly believe they are smart. When in fact they are not.

[@danatronics9039]

@@thelambsauce1701 Cownnibalism

[@hornetluca]

I'm from Italy and just this morning I donated my blood. Before donating I have to fill a form and one of those questions is if I was in England in the 80's. Now I understand why.

[@wordsareswords]

Fortunately you are not mad cow 😉

[@hornetluca]

@@wordsareswords I'm just mad 🤭

[@runningfromabear8354]

I'm British but I haven't been able to donate blood since I lived in the UK. I lived in Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, France, Denmark, England, Canada, USA, turned 18 and moved to England, Canada, Germany, USA and Canada. And that's just which countries I lived in, I've moved more than that. I don't even try to donate anymore. They think I'm a mad cow everywhere I go, no one wants my blood.

[@hornetluca]

@@runningfromabear8354 sorry to hear that

[@ikreer9777]

A friend of mine was in the UK during the mad cow outbreak. Her professor husband was doing a research sabbatical and they spent 2 semesters there. And were banned from blood or tissue donation after returning to the States. She was upset when she was banned from bone marrow donation when a friend developed leukemia, over a decade after their stint in the UK.

[@thinkscotty]

I’m American but lived in Scotland as a a child. Can confirm, nobody here ever wants my blood.

[@xmlthegreat]

It's vampire racism... It's disgusting. They hate gingers because blood doesn't rate good without a soul.

[@DaimyoD0]

I want your blood. But I'm not a doctor. 😈

[@TheMr77469]

Well at least you don't get robocalls for blood donation.

[@JohnnyWednesday]

@@xmlthegreat - I saw a ginger walking down the street the other day wearing clothes, shoes and a little hat - so cute :D it thinks its people :D

[@lepmuhangpa]

Here come the Ginger comments.

[@aliccolo]

My brother-in-law's mother died of CJD last year and it was absolutely horrific. She started experiencing tremors and memory loss in early April, went into a coma in late April, and passed in early May. Due to the nature of the disease she couldn't be diagnosed until after death. Completely devastating for the entire family to see a healthy woman suddenly taken. One day she was fine, the next she was on an irreversible path toward death. RIP, Rose. Your granddaughters and family miss you so much.

[@mariakutsy2178]

My condolences. My father passed away from this diseases last August. He was only 47 and was the healthiest person I have ever known. I don't want anyone to have such faight.

[@anitamjenkins]

So sorry for your loss and empathize! My mom died of sCJD in 2010. It was horrifying to witness her decline.

[@clueless_cutie]

My sincerest condolences. This is why a sweeping ban was adopted - to spare other people and their families the pain and suffering of losing a loved one to this awful disease. I fully supported the bans and have had to explain to donors why we couldn't take their blood. I understand they're trying to help and want to help, but precautions are very much necessary until we have a readily available test to identify bad donors. No one deserves to suffer like that.

[@jothishprabu8]

I'm so sorry

[@aliccolo]

She was my sister's mother-in-law.

[@Vysair]

The fact that there's a disease that can be silent, survived modern medicine, very lethal and considerably infectious exist is haunting.

[@Weiner-Worm]

You think CJD is scary, then don't google chronic wasting disease in deer. And definitely don't google how those prions can remain in the soil for an unknown length of time, and reinfect deer that eat in the area.

[@guilhermer4375]

And prions aren’t the only variation of diseases we should worry about. There’s viruses such as covid, bacteria, and even fungi. That’s why more investment in epidemiology and disease control are a MUST from now on

[@cortster12]

@@llamawalrushybrid Prions aren't alive. In fact, they're even less alive than viruses. They're proteins that cause abnormal folding by turning non-prions into more of themselves, like self-replicating cookie-cutters that cause our cells to stop functioning properly, usually brain cells.

[@kellisuzuki8889]

and that makes it so much scarier, a freak of nature that originates from chance out of the own victim. Kinda like cancer, but infectious.

[@jaredf6205]

You also can’t destroy prions. If a surgical patient in a hospital has a prion disease, they have to literally incinerate everything in the room, and it can’t still survive incineration.

[@jortand]

It was common practice to feed deceased cows to other cows??? I guess you learn something new every day. Great video !

[@nnelg8139]

beef contains all the nutrients a cow needs!

[@KX36]

recycling.

[@placeholdernameisplacehold7671]

Actually, it was more of an accident. Cows feed would have added offal. Where the waste meat and bone from slaughter would be roasted and made into a mixture that can be added to animal feed for extra protein. It wasn't supposed to contain raw meat or meat of the same species. But contamination occured during production.

[@deadfIag]

Eating domesticated processed red meat is a death sentence, that's likely not even the worst aspect about our animal agriculture.

[@KittinPyro]

No actually, Beef COULD NOT contain all the nutrients a cow needs, because cows are STRICTLY Herbivores. Even if the original cows that where fed to other cows had been given a diet that did contain all their vitamins, minerals and (etc.), Those nutrients are lost overtime because the cow uses up those things to keep its body in working order, So eventually, the cow being fed to the new cow won’t have any of those things left at all. Also a herbivore trying to eat meat has got to be hell on their digestive system. Kinda like people with lactose intolerance eating ONLY foods with lactose.

[@kenmohler4081]

I’m an American who spent a lot of time in England in the early 80s. I learned that I was banned from giving blood when my collie and I went to a human/canine blood drive. I was turned down, but my collie was not only accepted, but was found to be a universal donor, something rare in dogs who have many more blood types than we do. Of course they didn’t ask about my time in England until they had punctured me in three places to get samples. But as a result, I have a treasured photo of the two of us with matching bandages on our front “legs.”

[@KirbyLinkACW]

Today I learned that there are blood drives for dogs.

[@kyles5997]

That’s weird

[@Sofiaode18]

Cute

[@igor-yp1xv]

♥️♥️♥️ my dog passed away a few days ago. this story is probably a very nice memory for you.

[@kenmohler4081]

It certainly does. Toby was a great dog. I’m sorry you have lost your furry friend. I can only tell you that with time, your memories will turn from sad into happy. But it’s not a quick process.

[@A_Box]

I think you missed the part where prions survive autoclaving, acidic treatment, caustic treatment, ionizing radiation, and so on... This thing just doesn't go away! Prions are not like other diseases as the video implies.

[@3mar00ss6]

so basically prions are the literal ultimate fuck you disease (՞ ᗜ ՞)

[@DaimyoD0]

I heard there have been instances of prions remaining infectious in topsoil after more than a decade of exposure to sunlight and weather! I also wish they had been a little more explicit about how prions reproduce. Unlike bacteria which reproduce through fission and viruses that hijack human ribosomes to manufacture their proteins, prions are not even alive and contain no genetic material. They are just proteins that are misfolded in such a way that they can perform metabolism-metabolism that can misfold healthy proteins with which the prions come into contact, in turn changing the healthy proteins into prions. Before you know it, all these healthy proteins are consumed, neurons can't perform basic functions, and they die. This forms the brain lesions. It makes me think of the fictitious Ice-9 from Cat's Cradle, acting as a seed crystal that turns all water on Earth into Ice-9, or the theoretical strange quark matter, which would convert into a strange star any planet unfortunate enough to get in the way of infinitesimal droplets of the stuff, flying silently through space after being liberated from the core of a neutron star. When I first learned about prions in high school, it was very formative to my understanding of the definition of life, and changed my worldview at the time. It helped me realize that biotic structures are simply assortments of self-sustaining chemical reactions we classify with a list of characteristics, most important of which, is the ability to self-replicate. That epiphany I had in my sophomore year bio class directly lead to my decision to study biology as a career.

[@NotAverageAfro]

@@DaimyoD0 shits scary yo. I'd rather have actual Alzheimer's than this. If it came to it and they were like "youve got CJD" I'd figure out my finances asap then go take myself to the woods

[@Mia-ln1zs]

Well, prions aren't just one thing. It depends on a lot of factors whether they actually remain disruptive. Such as the type of prion it is.

[@harsh3624]

That's very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

[@rosaking3825]

I nurse a women wit sCJD in an Acute mental health ward. It was heart breaking. The person went from walking and being pleasant, to losing their ability to walk, speaking with difficulty and battering staff for hours at a time within a week. It was truly heartbreaking to see.

[@lw1zfog]

indeed, Prion disease is exceedingly grim, as many more will now find out

[@Gpz0]

5:34 "Cows are often feed the remains of other cows" that's a horrible beyond words...

[@jmcenanly1]

It sounds like "Soylent Green" for cattle.

[@dMi_mi]

😶 I am still shocked. I don't kno what to think.. I never knew this is a thing, yet legal 😶 how it can be legal.. n how people can think this is alright, just like a regular thing You kno.. honestly I just feel like trowin up. 😓

[@Gpz0]

@@dMi_mi It's not legal like it was back then, but they're still being fed their own indirectly. Cow are herbivores but are still being fed the remains of other animals who in turn were fed the remains of cows.

[@dMi_mi]

@@Gpz0 it's soo wrong.😔 that would never happen naturally in nature.. a cow wouldn't choose to munch another cow 😶 or d chicken wouldn't munch a cow ether.. 🙄

[@foosic1742]

@@dMi_mi cannibalism is very common in nature. Chickens very often eat their own kind, and almost all animals on Earth would eat any type of meat given the chance, its just that herbivores don't have the proper hardware to hunt for their own.

[@Vixterlk]

I was born in 1996 and my mother actually went on a strictly vegetarian diet while she was pregnant with me because of concerns surrounding mad cow disease.

[@ptmnc1]

Having grown up in the UK I've been a strict vegetarian since 1986 - before the first UK BSE confirmation and before the US stopped importing UK cattle - and they still won't let me donate blood in the US.

[@Vixterlk]

@Cristofer Andrade actually at the same time there was also a salmonella risk with chickens and eggs. Also the smell of pork cooking made her feel sick while she was pregnant so she didn't particularly want to eat that either and she's allergic to fish. So the contaminated beef wasn't the sole reason behing her decision but it was a major deciding factor. So really there weren't really any drawbacks to going vegetarian, the doctors monitoring her health were happy that she and I were healthy and getting all of the nutrients that she needed so there really wasn't a problem.

[@Vixterlk]

@Dmon ! I didn't say anywhere in there in my original post that it wasn't transferable in any other way, nor that a meat based diet was unhealthy. However, it was her doctors that advised her not to eat certain meats at the time due to the diseases that could be within them. Because of that and the fact that the smell of meat cooking made her feel sick when she was pregnant, she decided that it would just be simpler to go vegetarian. Then, after I was born she went back to eating meat at some point and still eats meat now. But even if she had decided to remain vegetarian it wouldn't have been a problem. As, like a meat based diet, a properly balanced plant based diet can also be perfectly healthy.

[@mikeg8276]

Your mother was smart. Idk why anyone would think otherwise 🤷‍♂️

[@Vixterlk]

@@mikeg8276 I think some people see "vegetarian" and get butthurt. Like I'm gonna come at them for enjoying a burger or something. 😂

[@erictaylor5462]

About a week before she died in 1984 my grandmother received a blood transfusion. Not long after she passed we got a call from the hospital. Not knowing she had already passed they asked us to come in because the unit of blood she had received was infected with HIV. Blood safety today is much better, but it's still not perfect.

[@barbaraagal1282]

My grandmother also died shortly from receiving a blood transfusion. She was in her late 90's, and had a rare blood disorder

[@erictaylor5462]

@@barbaraagal1282 Sorry to hear that. My grandmother's death had nothing to do with the blood transfusion She had emphysema.

[@Splexsychiick]

Damn

[@someoldytaccount]

My condolences. I'm studying about HIV-AIDS right now, so it's interesting that the lack of blood safety was still such a large cause of additional deaths despite being in the 3rd year after it's original discovery. The fact that intravenous drug users and people with chronic blood diseases were, and are still, put through such horrors is really saddening. Their deaths are often by accident, having not been told the risk or believing that it's worth the risk because it's an essential treatment for their disease or illness.

[@littleboots9800]

I believe the Hepatitis C scandal was down to the practice of buying blood from the US which was donated by prisoners. Many kids contracted Hep C and HIV before the practice was stopped.

[@KittinPyro]

Wow, so imagine feeling 100% all of the time, living an active, fit and healthy lifestyle. -One day your asked to participate in a random study; You figure, “What’s the harm?”, and accept. Your then told that you have a disease with 100% fatality rate and that your going to slowly die while you brain is turned into a sponge. Talk about yikes!

[@nevadag606]

That’s what I thought, they mentioned it so casually.... like the absolute devastation that study brought into those people’s lives.. they said like 2.6 years before onset of symptoms, so they lived knowing and waiting for it to start. Horrifying

[@solcutta3661]

U missed the point... 80% of us are ALREADY infected but show no symptoms.. In other words its sat inactive... For now. Lol

[@Jehty_]

@@solcutta3661 80%??? WTF no. At 1:15 they said 1:2000. Thats 0.05% How can you mistake 0.05% for 80%? Like seriously...

[@SeabassFishbrains]

Tbh as a person with juvenile onset arthritis I stared at just the first half of you first sentence for a good minute and thought "Nope. Can't imagine it." I have never experienced what it feels like to not be in pain....

[@user-pe2yx9kt4e]

@@solcutta3661 I think my dog died because my family got into a fight and she was really stressed out. I could tell when I was leaving, when I looked into her eyes, how sad and scared and stressed she was. She got sick 2 days later and died a few months on, even though we tried almost everything we could to make her better. I killed her. I hate myself and I hate my life. She was only 6 and her breed was healthy and supposed to live long. I cried so much, and had a huge psoriasis breakout that I still haven’t been able to get rid of 2 years later, and it’s strange, but now I feel like I’m having some of the same health issues as my dog. I wanted to give her a good life and for her to be happy. She was in some ways because she was almost never on a leash and could go where she liked outside on our farm. But she almost never did because she wanted someone to be with her and play with her. So she would just sit outside the door and wait. I used to take good care of her, but my parents couldn’t always afford to give her the best food, and I got so busy with college that I couldn’t be there for her anymore (mostly on breaks the first three years, and I was so tired...). I started giving her really good food the last 2ish years, but I guess it was too late. I wish I had gone to community college and done an online degree program. I’m not having another dog for a long time. I couldn’t even be there for her a few days before she died, when I knew it was going to happen. She had seizures right before it happened, and my mom was there but I don’t think my mom is overly affectionate. I wanted to have her sleep in my bed before it happened, but I was too scared and busy. I feel like she thought she was alone. She was in so much pain and when she got sick and wasn’t getting better I could see in her eyes that she knew what was going to happen. She used to have so much energy too... she seemed to have an undercurrent of unhappiness, even though we did have good moments, in the time leading up to her death. My parents didn’t want to put her down, and... idk how I feel. Im glad she had a few more months, especially because she was so young, and there were good moments in there. It also scares me, and doesn’t feel right. But she was in pain and weak and couldn’t even really eat anymore, especially towards the end.

[@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810]

2 cows are standing in a field. One turns to the other and says "are you worried about mad cow disease?" The looks back and says "nah, I'm a giraffe."

[@WolfLykaios]

Ah, good one

[@Rumassassin]

Had to think for a second there

[@nahometesfay1112]

Cause adult female giraffes are also called cows, and they also got the splotches

[@Timmie1995]

The cows probably never noticed, but feeding cows to other cows seems incredibly unethical, even cruel

[@40watt53]

like anyone cares about cow ethics

[@Timmie1995]

@@40watt53 Well, at least 29 people do, apparently

[@indianasb59]

@@Timmie1995 as 40 Watt says, as he is munching on his cereal and suddenly realizes he is chewing the cud of his auntie whomever.

[@idid1866]

@@Timmie1995 62 now!

[@Gamepro2112]

It’s not just the UK, it’s Germany too. I was born in Germany due to my dad being stationed there in the military, I’ve always been turned away from donating blood due to mad cow disease.

[@DavGreg]

The DoD sourced beef in part from the UK for mess halls, AAFES facilities and the Commissary.

[@pretzel_cat]

Yeah, I was stationed in Germany in the late 80s. I gave blood a few times after that in the 90s, but since then they won’t let me donate. Edit: watched til the end and it seems the FDA has lifted the donation ban on military vets now.

[@danielgstohl9993]

@SnoopyDoo Good thing you're not in charge of deciding that 🤦

[@LindaB651]

I was stationed in Germany in the early 80's and used to give blood, until they deferred me for possible vCJD. Last autumn they contacted me, and I again went through their checklist- lo and behold, I can donate blood again.

[@telecrate]

You can donate blood now. Germany was removed from the deferral list last year along with most other European countries, see the revised guidance of FDA-2012-D-0307 (www.fda.gov/media/124156/download What remains are the UK, Ireland and France.

[@stax6092]

It still bothers me that we ever forced cannibalism on our livestock.

[@nevergetsthejoke1844]

😵‍💫

[@hermitmoth6118]

'Forced' implies that any of the livestock are remotely so picky.

[@tissuepaper9962]

Bone and blood meal is high-protein, high-fat food that supplements the unbalanced diet of grains we already give livestock. There's really nothing inherently bad about cannibalism except that it offends our widdle human sensibilities. Biologically, protein is protein, calories are calories, a hungry hog will eat anything really. Prion diseases weren't caused by cannibalism, that practice simply accelerated their spread among susceptible ruminant livestock, which is why it was banned in that particular case. As long as you follow the guidelines designed to prevent the spread of disease (don't feed ruminants to ruminants is the main one) there's no problem. It would be incredibly stupid (not to mention even less sustainable than cattle raising already is) to let all of those unused animal parts sit and rot.

[@penlavits3305]

I saw some cannibal chickens eating each other

[@ycp4425]

Search for kuru disease.

[@scheimong]

When I first learned about prions years ago from Plague Inc, I immediately thought of the "grey goo nanobot scenario". Man, reality can really be scarier than fiction.

[@_aullik]

Prions are scarry Our body has very little ways of fighting it. Its interresting that they are not more common.

[@3mar00ss6]

@@_aullik because prions are not an alive pathogen but are just a glitched protein and it's probably hard to find ones that are capable of effectively destroying other proteins

[@_aullik]

@@3mar00ss6 I mean eventually we get really unlucky and there will be a prion in a cyclical food chain. So scavengers eating dead hunters and hunters hunting the scavenger. If it is a slow acting one there isn't much we can do against it.

[@3mar00ss6]

@@_aullik well maybe it doesn't cross species in nature and only our missed up way of making more cows caused such a glitch in nature, like prions are a literal fuck you to complex life forms I don't think they can just spread in nature on their own there is not enough cannibalism for it to happen 乁(ﾟﾍﾟ)ㄏ⁩

[@Youmu_Konpaku_]

Who knows, maybe one day prions just evolve water transmission 1 and air transmission 1 Then 2 years later you'll hear the total organ failure pop

[@alaylaburkhart5940]

I was born in the UK when the whole mad-cow thing was going on. Growing up in the US, it was a little confusing trying to explain to people during High School blood drives why I couldn't volunteer to donate.

[@jpslayermayor9293]

I lived in Nottingham as kid 79-83. What I do when going over questionnaire or telling nurse why I cant donate is do that super fast head jerk thing that is used tp indicate insanity etc. then say, " I haven't noticed any problems at all Its ridiculous how paranoid everyone is! "

[@ElizabethMotoe]

It amazes me that only 30 years ago we figured out that making cows become cannibals is a bad idea. Humans are not as advance as we think we are!

[@Cathal7707]

All in the name of a few cents profit

[@Cissonius]

you do realize that cows dont care what they eat yea? as long as its edible. they have been observed eating anything from flys to carrion. they dont have the mental frame work of morality, not to that degree. they only care if its food not what we think about the food. however i do agree that the mismanagement of their food that lead it to that point is detestable.

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

"We figured out" I guess you mean your part of the world mate. Nowhere else know earth do they feed animals with other animals esp of the same species.

[@Caroline.123]

Some humans are not advance and it was a money making thing

[@jackster2568]

@@theemirofjaffa2266 is there a citation for that or is it another useless statement pulled out from the 3rd worlds ass?

[@5055hunter]

I'm on the "can not donate" list. I have never visited England, but was stationed in W. Germany in the early 1980's. My understanding was that the USAF got their beef from England at that time, placing me on that list. EDIT: I was not aware that the ban had been lifted for military personnel! Great news, I can start donating again!!

[@5055hunter]

@@WildnUnruly Agreed, those stationed in England are still banned. They only relaxed the ban for those NOT stationed in England.

[@traumazombie3843]

What's with your sick desire to donate your filthy blood

[@Aereto]

@@traumazombie3843 To spread a contagious protein to other people and destroy brains when they are too old.

[@precise1758]

Maybe you shouldn’t

[@richthofen0005]

@@Aereto “contagious protein”

[@thebeanman99]

So what I’m hearing is... the zombie apocalypse will start in England?

[@Activesilver97]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJSnmZeYa69mqK8 28 days later

[@veiserexab1428]

Like Shaun of the dead

[@Heisrisen237]

😄😄😄😂

[@ardyn407necroderg]

@@Activesilver97 huh my thoughts exactly

[@paddington1670]

China be like, "hold my chopsticks"

[@DaFinkingOrk]

I did my dissertation on prions - very scary stuff! But if we can affect them we may be able to cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease for a start. Currently though, very scary stuff.

[@randomcow505]

huntingtons is a prion disease?

[@someoldytaccount]

@@randomcow505 From reading another comment, there's currently no direct evidence but the nature and primary disease affected location leads to a possible link between Huntington's disease and those similar being caused by prions.

[@fishfan2]

What if we tried to engineer our own prion that could counter the affects of other prions

[@Zack-fu4lo]

@@fishfan2 that sounds like the start of a zombie apocalypse

[@fishfan2]

@@Zack-fu4lo true lol

[@erikadlloyd5586]

I just donated blood and I saw the question about living in the UK in that time period. No one could tell me what the question was about. Now I know.

[@TheodoreBrosevelt]

This is my first time hearing about, I've only heard of people being turned away for STDs and other stuff

[@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim]

I mean the next question on that lists asks about Mad Cow Disease so that would explain it

[@nevadag606]

Imagine that, human health, pivots on the quality of the food we consume. Quality comes from properly and humanely and sustainably taking care of our food sources.

[@damikey18]

It's always best to grow your own food and raise your own cattle.

[@damikey18]

@Mr Karenwell it is healthier and more reliable if you raise your own cattle and grow your own food.

[@pallios]

I had no idea that such a thing was happening. Thanks for making me less ignorant on the matter!

[@youngcaptainkeos2133]

Lol same here

[@noahgeerdink5144]

“Unaware”

[@meganhoward8820]

@@noahgeerdink5144 same thing. The word was used correctly.

[@skrrtskrrt2410]

@@meganhoward8820the word ignorant has a connotation of a conscious choice, op clearly didn't make the choice of ignoring it since they didn't know it in the first place

[@noahgeerdink5144]

@@skrrtskrrt2410 exactly

[@somesortofdeliciousbiscuit3704]

My husband's cousin died from CJD when he was 18- he'd got it from infected baby food since he only got symptoms during his CJD.

[@barbm2375]

This channel is amazing. You’ve touched on so many issues tied to the propagation of animal-borne diseases via the human food chain. Excellent information.

[@santcoin4031]

I lost my dad to CJD almost 4 years ago. Thank you for this video. It is not a common desease so funding for reasearch is very limited. Thank you for creating awareness. To my dad and dear friend, I miss you every day.

[@travcollier]

Worth remembering that those dire warnings about BSE potentially killing thousands didn't come true *because* of those drastic measures (at least in part.) Y2K is my goto example of where many people think something was over hyped or even fake when it didn't cause serious problems... Forgetting that lots of people worked very hard to keep those predictions from coming true.

[@katiekat4457]

A very big problem is that it can take many decades for any symptoms to show up in a human. You could carry it from childhood into old age but most of the time people don't get lucky with all that time.

[@nolaray1062]

Is it a painful condition once it starts?

[@jadecoolness101]

@@nolaray1062 your brain slowly degrades, take a wild guess

[@nolaray1062]

@@jadecoolness101 I always assumed it did, but there are so many ppl in the comments who are saying things about ppl they know who had it and they seem to be talking about everything but pain. That’s why I didn’t know if it just caused mental issues or if they actually experienced physical pain because nobody seems to be saying that part

[@shanmarie4122]

@@Belltogo3000 It's believed that it can take up to 40 years for symptoms of CJD to show.

[@marylclc1269]

@@jadecoolness101 You don't feel pain in your brain. But, CJD is awful. My step dad died of it. We don't know where or when he got it, but it was like dementia on steroids. He went from a bit shaky for a while, to acting out of character a few months later to being completely incoherent in a few weeks. They weren't sure if he was in pain or not, but I insisted they gave him pain meds, as he was moaning and I was scared something might be hurting him. (not his brain because one cannot feel pain in one's brain. But, there was no reason to not give him pain meds. He was agitated and the pain meds calmed him down at least. I was calling the hospital regularly to make sure he was getting his pain meds. There was one nurse who was really lazy about giving him his meds and I actually had an argument with her as she said, "He doesn't need them!" I responded with, "We don't *know* if he's in pain! We need to make sure he isn't." She had never seen CJD before, but assumed she knew all about it. Even the doctors didn't know much about it.) His brain was supposed to be donated to the hospital for study. My mother insisted that the hospital was going to charge her for the procedure after he died so she didn't do it. They weren't going to charge her. I don't think she understood what they were telling her. I found out later there is never a charge to the family when someone donates body parts to science.

[@El_Saam]

There are few questions related to this topic that I need to answer every time before I donate blood. - Have you stayed in the UK for a total of over six months between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996? - Have you or any of your close relatives been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)? - Have you had an operation in the UK after 1 January 1980? This video explained really well why these questions are asked.

[@jacquejac1840]

This is why my family & I can't donate. This video described the problem much better than any doctor that's told us no in the past.

[@jacquejac1840]

@@toflow1177"Why would you be asking a doctor about blood donation? " ~I haven't tried to a donate in over 20+ yrs since I found out that I couldn't...So the current process may be different from what I remember, which was a doctor overseeing a phlebotomist or nurse drawing the blood. As the supervisor, they would field the questions. My mother asks almost every doctor she's ever seen why she can't donate, as well. A transfusion in England saved her life in 84.

[@juliemcgugan1244]

@@toflow1177 At the blood donation centre I attended (Singapore, not US,) they had a doctor on-hand to answer any questions. My technician knew the fact that I'd had shingles would potentially be a problem, but was unsure how long I would have to have been well, before I could donate again. She referred me to this doctor, who told me six months. I left the country permanently 3 weeks later. Now I'm waiting for my second dose of Covid-19 vaccine and I have no idea what the blood donation rules are, here in Cyprus, so I'm going to have to go and get educated and find out if this new vaccine will effect that at all.

[@red2theelectricboogaloo961]

@@toflow1177 i mean if you donate blood i heard that you literally save live 6 to 8 lives for each time

[@red2theelectricboogaloo961]

@@toflow1177 i dont know. go give blood?

[@red2theelectricboogaloo961]

@@toflow1177 i mean i dunno.

[@siedliko]

No wonder there are so many mad cows on the streets in UK.

[@IDontModWTFz]

Too many about

[@alliesakat]

@Mr Karen lmao wut

[@Dominicwylai]

I'm a Brit living in Singapore and when I went in to give blood, they also rejected me for the same reason...

[@XDarkGreyX]

When i clicked on this, I didn't expect it to be a video on the disease that gives me nightmares. And I initially planned on skipping this one, but since these videos are rare treats... HERE WE GO.

[@DrJackLawler]

It was the same in Ireland for anyone who lived in the UK during the risk period, we've recently reversed the decision thanks to low risk

[@BenTvHowman]

They can't donate here in Australia also. A family friend was living there during that period and now he can't donate blood

[@lottievixen]

lived in Australia for 10 years and when I first moved there, there was a blood drive and I cried because I couldn't give blood wanted to give blood because I was premature and needed blood when I was born

[@KX36]

@@lottievixen In UK, having previously received a transfusion would be another reason you can't donate. Kinda sucks because previous recipients are the most determined donors in other countries.

[@lottievixen]

@@KX36 oh .. well that crashed any hopes I had, I'll continue trying to get people to understand why I want to, why I can't and how they can help.

[@flyinghigh2000]

I'm from Asia where hepatitis b fear banned me from donating in Europe. Then since I lived in Ireland for 10 years now moving back home I can't donate because of bse. I started donating since I'm 18 every 2-3 month before I moved to Europe. It is sad because all my other family member can't donate for various reasons

[@briantannenbaum8110]

6:35

[@addicted2caffeine]

fun fact: as a baker in the UK. we were told that it wasn't feeding meat to cows. it was feeding bakery goods that contained meat traces ie doughnuts.

[@jadecoolness101]

@Dmon ! false, feeding cows to cows would've been fine (well not fine, but. Whatever). The issue is that cows were eating INFECTED cows, thus catching the disease themselves. Diseased cows were then being fed to humans, which made humans also catch the disease.

[@pnonnymouse4840]

The problem as I understood it was that the feed that was used was not processed correctly. That is cooked at a high enough temperature to kill off the bacteria and viruses which are present in the disease animal.

[@jadecoolness101]

@@pnonnymouse4840 the diseased animal doesn't have any virus or bacteria, they have prions (misfolded proteins) Did you even watch the video?

[@pnonnymouse4840]

Yes that is known now. But then it was deemed that if they cooked the animal remains at a high enough temperature that this would kill off the problem. It was also deemed likely that it was a varient of a sheep disease scrapie. Which had possibly mutated into the BSE by putting diseased sheep into the animal feed chain. The prions was not explained correctly at the time. Sorry that I was not clear that I was talking about the information given to the British public at the time.

[@addicted2caffeine]

@Dmon ! source. I was a baker at a large supermarket chain. my manager told me saying they received notice on the change of disposal due to the discovery. however its highly probable that the bakery goods weren't the culprit. and that the chains decided to go OTT to cover their backs. or if it was the cause. maybe it was via baked goods that we the public caught it.

[@xaindsleena8090]

Just your voice alone is enough to get anyone inspired about learning science. You have the perfect voice for these types of videos. Wow!

[@ToastieBRRRN]

This video is a funny coincidence since I found out recently my cousin who is a dual British-Belgian-American citizen couldn't donate blood in the US too.

[@LOLquendoTV]

When I donated blood in Spain I also had to fill in a form before donating, a question of which was "Have you lived in the UK during the 83-96 period" which i thought was sort of funny in a how specific kind of way but now I know

[@joanhoffman3702]

I lived in England for 3 months in 1990. Didn’t eat any beef, didn’t visit any farms, and now I can’t donate blood.

[@Steve-zc9ht]

LMAO 😂

[@zaniq23]

That's right. It can be proven that you visited England. But it can't be proven what you did not do there.

[@edmcguire9940]

My wife and I were stationed with the US Air Force in the UK in the 80’s, still can’t donate blood here.

[@emilybarclay8831]

I’m British and I love me some beef, so I had a slight panic when I remembered this disease can lay dormant for years. Then I remembered I was born in 2000 so I’ve (hopefully) not got the zombie cow disease

[@jadecoolness101]

I was also born in 2000, and have always had bad balance, coordination, focus. Doctors say there's nothing wrong with me and I've always been consistent in my dysfunction so I guess it's just how I am. But as a kid my british grandparents were super concrned lol.

[@red2theelectricboogaloo961]

"just pray to god that you won't see any symptoms and you'll be fine i swear"

[@Fvoarin]

If your mother has it, then you also have it. As it can be transmitted to children before birth. Also, it takes 40 years for symptoms to show up, on average. And there have been growing cases in the uk, in recent years. We're nearing the 40 year mark now. Basically, for all of us born after that time, to people who ate meat from that time, wait until 2030. If they're still alive, and didn't die from Prions. Then you're probably good

[@DaimyoD0]

This channel is incredible. So unique. I didn't even know how much more I had to learn about prion disease

[@sirjames26]

I am a Canadian originally from Britain and a former regular blood doner in the UK. Canada still in 2021 will not accept my blood. Thank goodness the fears of vCJD never materialized but at least better farming practices were adopted in many countries.

[@Steve-zc9ht]

Dang Canada and the USA won't except blood from the UK or anyone related to it lol

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

Hey, if Covid wasn't enough for you, let's revisit mad cow disease. 😑

[@veiserexab1428]

Ebola and Marburg is also one of the worst disease Prions is almost indestructible and has no cure

[@billylauwda9178]

*lets revisit the plaque*

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

@@billylauwda9178 Plaque, as in teeth, or bowling trophy?

[@billylauwda9178]

@@jamesbarisitz4794 goodness me, sorry i mean plague. I do apologise for my incompetence. As you can see Mr. Baristiz i juse woke up from my slumber.

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

@@billylauwda9178 Ha ha! No worries mate ! 😃

[@briannemurdock4183]

I lived in Germany when my dad was stationed overseas. Because of DOD beef sourcing from the UK in the 90s, I am not able to give blood.

[@PirateOfTheNorth]

Can confirm this. I grew up in the UK (wasn’t born there) and moved abroad and I went to donate blood with a friend and got rejected.

[@TheLooterArmy]

This is so well written, making the information easy to absorb and understand for someone who knows little about the topic.

[@kristen2693]

Very true

[@jamestuccillo]

10:53 "let's the cows decide when they get milked." Still that one bull is just taking advantage...

[@justanotherhuman.3649]

That's a cursed my friend.

[@Virusskeptic-d3z]

How does being milked more often mean they get sick less often? I would think it would be the other way around.

[@simdoughnut659]

@@Virusskeptic-d3z I'm not a Dairy Farmer, but I do know that Dairy Cows suffer greatly if not milked regularly, and they can even die. Dairy cows produce upwards of 8 gallons of milk a day, and have to be milked every day. If not milked the milk will build up in the udder causing incredible pain for the animal and potential infections. I can't tell you how many times over the years I've read stories of a Dairy Farmer going out of the country on vacation and hiring someone to milk, and that person never shows up, resulting in an entire herd getting sick and dying.

[@Virusskeptic-d3z]

@@simdoughnut659 ok, thanks for the info. I was wrong. It's one of those things that can be a little hard to understand if not explained.

[@jtodd3104]

@@Virusskeptic-d3z happens in sheep to, if something doesn't remove the milk in good time they get a bacterial infection in the udder called mastitas which can cause hards lumps in the udder as well as pain and sometimes death

[@The_real_Wayninsky]

We had a high profile politician in Utah that died from mad cow disease.

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

Yikes :(

[@natashanicole7408]

Who?

[@0011-b9j]

@@natashanicole7408 Joe

[@diptosarker810]

@@0011-b9j Joe who?

[@MyChilepepper]

Becky Lockhart?

[@acearohippo]

I learned about this when I was kid, all because of a fictional story called Going Bovine. It's genre was magical realism, really fun and comedic for such a dark disease

[@SC-RGX7]

Prions, in French it quite says "To pray", and when you have it, just pray

[@RobinHilton22367]

Having being born in the UK in 1989 and subsequently emigrating to New Zealand in 2003 I can also confirm that I cannot give blood here for the same reason.

[@Valandar2]

I was stationed for 9 months in Scotland in the mid 1990's... and cannot give blood.

[@平和-v1z]

The day always gets better when Real Science uploads a new video...

[@josesoto3594]

Seeing those cows falling down was rough :(

[@rindianiorvala5057]

I remember learning this in my 1st year of medschool, my professor had ever encounter this disease in 2 patient, and they are brothers.

[@actl786]

Former blood bank tech here from the states. Yes, absolutely ban should continue. We get late blood recalls all the time, but had to ignore it coz those recalled blood were already given to patients. I always tell my friends to only get blood from friends & family.

[@Jay-ho9io]

Hell no. I know what some of my friends do.

[@actl786]

@@Jay-ho9io find cleaner friends 😂

[@Jay-ho9io]

@@actl786 🤣👍🏽

[@austinwagner3231]

I lived in England 2005-2007ish, and my hypochondriac of a mother was convinced that we would not be able to donate blood until 105 years after we moved away -_-

[@PhilLesh69]

I visited London and Dublin sometime around 1999 or 2000 and remember a lot of shops, hotels, train stations and other public places had floor mats soaked in antiseptic solution for people to walk over as they entered to kill whatever pathogen. I believe it had to do with BSE.

[@moonoreo]

Who knew she was on to something

[@youtubeboxingcentral2022]

@@PhilLesh69 foot and mouth disease i believe. it would not do anything against bse

[@benkerby4827]

@@PhilLesh69 Yes this was due to Foot and Mouth.

[@BigDave15]

I remember it being called new variant CJD on the news, but judging by the dates in the video that could be over 20 years ago, so I guess it isn't quite so new anymore.

[@arianamarasco2158]

I’m from Argentina and I donated blood last weekend, if you lived during the 80’s in the UK, you cannot donate blood in my country. It seems it’s a global thing.

[@aubs400]

Worth noting both France and the Netherlands also had a massive problem with the same disease, but managed to avoid the medical flack.

[@flyinghigh2000]

I'm from Asia who went to study in Europe. Before I donated blood frequently but now I can't donate at all. Thanks to hepatitis and mad cow disease.

[@Raff766]

@SnoopyDoo I'm pretty sure he mean't that he can't donate blood in his own country because he went to Europe. Also the only people who eat dog meat are SOME Chinese people, not all Asians, idiot...

[@handlesarefeckinstupid]

Pretty sure hepatitis is the reason.

[@flyinghigh2000]

@@handlesarefeckinstupid I don't have hepatitis or else I can't go to med school. But still because its endemic to Asia. EU won't allow me to donate. While my country won't allow people who had been living for a long time in the EU because of bse.

[@xxportalxx.]

@@flyinghigh2000 that's ironic af

[@juliemcgugan1244]

@flyinghigh2000 I grew up in Singapore, but spent summers in the UK, in the 80s and 90s. Can't donate in Singapore due to CJD and couldn't donate in the UK due to the time spent in a Malarial country. For a while during Circuit Breaker (Singapore's version of lockdown,) we had awful outbreaks of Dengue Fever (similar to Malaria; spread my mosquitos.) This was because routine spraying of private properties and building sites was completely disallowed and the population of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that carries and spreads Dengue fever, exploded all across the island. It was like a double whammy!

[@randykroells8049]

I was turned away when they started asking alot of questions because I was a GI in Germany but I donated many times before.

[@nekomakhea9440]

For a second I thought the outro said "Octopi keep learning to escape by listening to Modulus on Nebula" That would be a very smart Octopus

[@realscience]

I wouldn't put it past them

[@AmyAndThePup]

Oh good, I'm not the only one. xD I thought the same thing, had to rewind to listen again a couple more times... lol

[@bluebutterflywellness2273]

This channel is so eye opening!

[@-grizzly-4224]

My grandpa just died from this, we had no idea he had this, until it was to late, that shit can stay "hidden" for 30 or more years i don't know if he passed it on to me and I'm not sure I want to. Its no joke and its brutal 😥😢

[@AmyAndThePup]

My heart goes out to you. :(

[@fredericapanon207]

My condolences on your loss. Unless you were exposed to his neural tissue, you are unlikely to have been infected by him. Remember that vCJD is hard to diagnose from blood tests because there are so few prions in blood.

[@franziskawild6981]

This should be called: why no British person born before 1996 can donate blood basically anywhere

[@JLO72]

Not true I can donate in Gibraltar, Falkland Island, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.

[@sirduffbeer4202]

The interesting thing is that other European countries can as they had much greater number/percentage of mad cow disease in their population (both people and cows). But the UK got all the press due to it identifying it.

[@paulholla]

I was born in the UK in 83 and I can donate blood.

[@franziskawild6981]

@@paulholla how come?

[@EnigmaGameIn]

I've given blood loads of times I was born in 85

[@youngcaptainkeos2133]

your videos are amazing lol. u need way more subscribers.

[@Pyriphlegeton]

Diseases like this make me really look forward to lab-grown meat. No pathogens, no hormones, no antibiotics, no suffering.

[@garethbaus5471]

There are already some great products made from plants that are a decent approximation of ground beef.

[@hechss]

Lab-grown meat sounded great, but they require: 1) Biopsies of tissue from living animals to start the cell culture 2) Foetal bovine serum to grow the cell culture. This is basically blood drained from the heart of a fetus inside the mother cow with a syringe. 3) Huge amounts of energy to keep the temperature, Ph and more indicators at very precise levels. Right now the solution is already on the supermarkets’ shelves. Plant-based meat has every pro!

[@veiserexab1428]

Don't consume soy too much, Just saying

[@garethbaus5471]

@@veiserexab1428 you probably don't want to derive more than about a third of your calories from soy on average simply to ensure you get a good mix of foods and avoid nutrient deficiencies, but it is a fairly benign food.

[@Pyriphlegeton]

@@veiserexab1428 Soy is very healthy if you don't eat it in absolute excess.

[@UntangleTheOffice]

Thank you for great content and presentation. Well thought through and concise. Subscribed!

[@howey935]

My cousins wife died in March of inherited CJD she didn’t have any symptoms until December and the doctors thought she was having a psychotic breakdown. She saw a specialist and he told my cousin to prepare for her death as by this time she was in a coma. It’s a 1 in a million chance of getting it and there’s no cure.

[@emanwhomakesbarrels701]

Prions just be maverick proteins so charismatic they get everyone around them to join the club

[@MsEverAfterings]

Now that’s an influencer

[@NamelessVoice808]

I lived in Germany from birth to 6 months and they don’t want my blood either. It’s a shame because I donated all the time in collage just to get out of class.

[@Rebster]

I have read further up in this thread that the ban on germany is lifted in the us, so you might be able to donate again

[@sarabobara8458]

I live in New Brunswick Canada, and we have a mysterious outbreak of a disease which they have already said appears to be a prion disease. Its scary. 40 people have been diagnosed and still no answers.

[@chronos401]

It's probably coming from the shots. There's been at least a couple reported CJD cases and many other ailments appearing not too long after receiving the CeeOhVeeID jabs. The public has been conditioned not to use their brains and not to care. When severe cases happen, authorities love to ignore and deny any association. The vast majority of the public accepts this answer. Don't be surprised if a lot more prion disease and other conditions pop up over the next several years in NB and elsewhere.

[@sarabobara8458]

@@chronos401 lmao, this existed in 2018 before the pandemic even started.

[@pedrowhack-a-mole6786]

Mad cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans killed my best friend's father last year. From the first symptoms that were initially misdiagnosed as a stroke until his death was only months. There is a very similar disease amongst cannibals, especially those in New Guinea, called Kuru disease.

[@bempomaa489]

in short, this disease still exists? Thanks

[@pedrowhack-a-mole6786]

@@bempomaa489 It does but the incidence is like a million to one. It's a really lousy lottery to win. There are people out there that were infected decades ago that show no signs of the disease. The sad thing is it is 100% fatal there is no treatment.

[@bempomaa489]

@@pedrowhack-a-mole6786 gotcha that,thank you.

[@HorzaPanda]

This is why I can't donate blood in the US. I grew up in the UK

[@Cinnamontoastcrunch1029]

Did everyone in the comments grow up in the u.k and move to a different country lol

[@HorzaPanda]

@@Cinnamontoastcrunch1029 It's a thing we feel strongly about apparently XD Though I'm sure some of us who are scared of needles find it convenient whenever the topic of blood donation comes up >_>

[@SonyDjuana]

Now I know why they always question me about this when I'm donating my blood

[@GordonGordon]

Why is a liver CT shown every time a brain scan is mentioned?

[@fernandopb08]

I thought that those CT were strange too, thanks to your comment I googled it and it really is a liver CT on the video, which is very strange.

[@GordonGordon]

@@fernandopb08 .... Bovine spongiform hepatitis? 🧐

[@3bydacreekside]

Brains be nasty man

[@Tatusiek_1]

@@GordonGordon lol

[@amolpreetkaur3443]

I was thinking the same 😂

[@AFFMotorsport]

In Australia, my old man died from it 4 years ago after a transfusion in the 80's.

[@lindariley7037]

I'm so sorry for you & your family!

[@TaelonOrigin]

vCJD?

[@user83nf3]

01:59 thats a plague inc senario

[@Crisscross_Studios]

My dad was in Britain at the end of his Highschool years, (his mom and dad were in the Air Force) so he can’t donate blood.

[@pH7oslo]

As a recovering vampire, this was a tough one to watch..

[@williamwilson6499]

Somewhere in Yorkshire: Cow 1: Mate, have you heard about that disease that’s been going around infecting cows and destroying their brains? Cow 2: Yeah, good thing we’re penguins. I spent five wonderful years in England, 85-90, so I’m banned from donating. But you can still be placed on bone marrow donations.

[@spellbinder3113]

Not Mad Cow story but HIV. I was in a very serious car accident in 1988 and in need of a blood transfusion. This was at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Blood was not being tested at that time. My mother asked the doctor prior to the transfusion about contracting HIV. He told her "Mam, I'll be blunt. Either she dies right now or she may die later..." I was given the transfusion and for 3 years after had to get regular HIV testing. Each time when I waited for the results I would wondered whether I was saved from one death only to die from AIDS. Fortunately, the blood was clean. Nowadays blood is of course tested for it.

[@shanmarie4122]

My grandma passed from sporadic CJD. It's absolutely devastating to watch someone go through.

[@helenamcginty4920]

Same in Europe or used to be when I moved here 10 yrs ago. Yet I have read that in the US people could be paid for blood donations which was a source of income for poor drug addicts with all the potential health implications of problems like hepatitis infections. Is this now stopped ? In Europe a donation is given free.

[@mizzshortie907]

In Alaska we don’t get paid to donate, I heard in some states you get paid to donate plasma but not up here

[@Cinnamontoastcrunch1029]

From the u.s here and I didn’t know you get paid for that. I think most places probably don’t go you. Also I guess it is kinda smart to pay people because more people are gonna be convinced to do the same, but kind of messed up at the same time because we know they wouldn’t have done it if they didn’t get paid. I guess paying people technically means more lives get saved

[@aikasan5900]

In America there is paid plasma donation to maintain the pharmaceutical sector that creates albumin and other protein therapies for those who suffer from hemophilia, Kawasaki disease, and other various disorders. If people weren’t paid, there’d be no way to collect enough plasma to maintain the global demand for those manufactured products. Most of Europe’s manufactured blood products comes from American donors because of the CJD risk from their own population. Blood/plasma for direct transfusion cannot be derived from paid donors, however.

[@jenniferballinger4350]

Never pay people for blood in the US. But they do for plasma

[@imzjustplayin]

@Oke Ihenacho How exactly does a universal healthcare model prevent people from wanting to be paid to donate something they're not obligated to donate? Exactly, it doesn't. Idiot.

[@saims.2402]

There’s so much I don’t know about the world.

[@TheFirstBubbaBong]

You are not alone. It’s called sheeple disease. Spend a few days here and you should be fully recovered. globalistagenda.org

[@lydia1634]

My family lived in the UK during the 80s/90s. I laughed so hard when I found out I was a universal donor.

[@tonyg.482]

Why

[@lydia1634]

Because I can't give blood.

[@cor1817]

@@lydia1634 dont get why thats so funny

[@lydia1634]

@@cor1817 Because, sometimes the irony is just so strong, laughter is the only possible response.

[@glacousxx]

Didnt the simpsons have an episode where they feed the cow a cow and make a burger out it and it caused a disease. Honestly this is such a terrible disease i feel so sad knowing how many people must've been affected and we couldn't even know what they had untill theyre passing.

[@LuckyPigeon1111]

I saw this title and thought of vCJD/BSE/Mad Cow Disease. I was not disappointed.

[@Bringon-dw8dx]

Tbf in the UK we need our own blood, I didn’t realise we export it?! Especially when it’s given for free by people with the impression it’s going to NHS patients

[@FriedEgg101]

We can't export it if nobody wants it lol. We give it for free, but the people who run the blood service need to be paid. I assume every donation needs to be tested and processed. A unit of blood is worth about £400 afaik. That makes it somewhat of a commodity.

[@Bekinditcostsnothing]

it is not exported, they mean British people who now live abroad, who were born before 1996 can not donate in other countries.

[@purpleviolet219]

Apparently one in every two thousand British people who were around during the vCJD scandal are carriers of the abnormal prions from the beef scandal to this day

[@julianchristensen6895]

Alternate Title: BLOODY HELL!

[@brad.ritzel]

I was born in Germany in the 90s and I have always been turned down when trying to donate blood

[@gracelord6476]

It’s the same in Australia, I’m British, but I can only donate blood here because I was born a month after the deadline ended. It took about an hour for them to decide whether I could donate or not. My parents are so upset that they can’t help out and donate blood.

[@respectmychocolate]

When I was a kid in the early to mid 90s, I spent every other year in the uk. when I was a struggling college student in atl, I lied to donate my plasma. I feel a lil bad now.

[@ngjo3y]

All your “brain” scans are actually of the liver region haha