Submitted on Friday 24th March 2017
Published on Tuesday 4th April 2017
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
Signatures: 20
Allow blood transfusion recipients to donate blood and bone marrow
Currently, those who have received a blood transfusion since January 1980 are not permitted to donate blood or bone marrow, due to fears of vCJD transmission.
At the time of the ban, 1 transfusion recipient was suspected, not proved, of developing vCJD due to donor blood contamination. An estimated 52,000 people were prevented from donating by the ban. At a time when blood and bone marrow donors are dangerously low, it is patently ridiculous to deny life-saving supplies based on the tiny chance of recipients developing CJD decades later. Either the ban should be lifted, or at risk donors should assessed on a case by case basis.
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