Japanese blood tainted by overseas trips unwanted

[Taro Toporific]

Gee, the Japanese Red Cross always refuses my evil alien blood but now they don't want any Japanese blood traited with Brit or French evil too.

AFP, AFP, Mon Mar 7,10:45 PM ET
Japan will ban people who spent even a single day in Britain or France from 1980 to 1996 from donating blood over fears of spreading the human version of mad cow disease.
More info here.

[GuyJean]

Gee, the Japanese Red Cross always refuses my evil alien blood but now they don't want any Japanese blood traited with Brit or French evil too.

I'm curious]A former Japanese Health Ministry official was found guilty of negligence for failing to stop the sale of untreated blood products. Over 1,800 haemophiliacs had contracted HIV in Japan since the early 1980's from untreated blood and more than 500 have died.121 - http://www.avert.org/his98_99.htm[/quote] GJ

Edited for stats:

Japan - 15 cases since 2001
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=329065
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/health/10812924.htm

Europe - 177,514 BSE cases since 1985 (D'oh! Britain alone! Bloody mad limeys!)
http://www.rense.com/general6/madcowcountry.htm

Nevermind...

[GomiGirl]

But there is no AIDS in Japan is there? I thought that was a nasty foreigners disease?

[GuyJean]

But there is no AIDS in Japan is there? I thought that was a nasty foreigners disease?

Well.. If memory serves me right, the tainted blood Japan gave it's hemopheliacs was imported from the US..

But the US did tell Japan to treat it since there was a 'mysterious' virus going around at the time..

GJ