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  1. hkmb

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    A snap study held on June 23 last year showed that 51.89% of a sample group of 33,577,342 UK residents had indeed gone spongy.

    No, I don't think so, either here or in China. Not sure about the US.
     
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    You're very welcome.
     
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    This is America, where we sue about everything. I do not think they will ever drop any tests that ever were relevant nor questions that once made sense. If they did, the lawsuits start.

    (my wife 'false positives' on a hep C test that is ancient. She is fine on two newer tests and does not have Hepatitis C, but so long as she false positives, she can't give)
     
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    had indeed gone spongy@21. Serves me right for attempting humor. He surely does not mean that >51% showed symptoms of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Were that so I wouold almost certainly have heard.
     
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    It's the only possible explanation for the symptoms shown by that 51.89%.

    It was all over the news the day after the study. Still is, every day.
     
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    AFAIK studies were being done on residual risk about 10 years ago. If approximately nobody is popping up with symptoms now, the ban represents a poorly chosen self burden.

    I think mad cow/BWE/vCJD killed about 200 beefeaters. Know of none demonstrated by blood transfusion.

    For diseases persisting in population that demonstrated blood transfectivity (ex. Hep C) it makes perfect sense to keep asking 'personal' questions and keep doing ELISA testing.
     
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    You ought to reveal that study, as you are of few words about it.
     
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    It might be worth doing an Internet search on the sample size.
     
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    An objection to this blood-donor rule might carry more weight if you did not immediately go silly about it.
     
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    I agree entirely. We clearly don't have it and there's been no indication of it being passed on through blood transfusion, even within Britain. I would love to give blood here, and I can't, and the same goes for so many other people here.

    Indeed. And it's clear, for example, that the Hep C risk from me travelling regularly to China is greater than the BSE risk from me having lived in Britain. But this doesn't seem to occur to anyone.
     
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    Possibly...
     
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    i remember the first time i gave blood, the questions were unbelievable. post aids, and post 9/11.
    i think it was about two hours of questions and filling out forms.
    after that, it was a piece of cake.
     
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    In Britain, you just get a biscuit.
     
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    nothing wrong with that. tea?
     
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    IT'S BRITAIN!!!!!!

    OF COURSE THERE WAS TEA!!!!!!!!

    If there were no tea, it would be anarchy.
     
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    yeah, we already went through that. i still like tea, got my first taste in london, circa 1972.
     
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    That was around the time I was getting my first taste of anything at all.
     
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    ah, you kids. get off my lawn!:mad:
     
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    This is about the only place that I feel young.

    Actually, the kids' school is good - we're in one of those suburbs where people have their kids quite late, so we're about a normal age among the other other parents.
     
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    we're just starting to mind our new grandson once a week. talk about feeling old...
     
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