Comments on: One Way to Help? Give Blood. https://clutchmov.com/one-way-to-help-give-blood/ Online Magazine for the Mid-Ohio Valley Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:38:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.16 By: Enke-Mari Marx https://clutchmov.com/one-way-to-help-give-blood/#comment-867 Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:25:50 +0000 http://clutchmov.com/?p=23964#comment-867 I can't help but wonder why they won't just test the blood donations for whatever they're afraid of in the blood and then use it if it's free from whatever they tested, and discard it otherwise. It'll be good for me to donate anyway, because it'll make my body generate new blood cells. But I guess I don't fully understand everything, so sorry America, you're losing out on some prime African blood here! haha GO DONATE BLOOD IF YOU CAN!!]]> If only they’ll take my blood! I’m a South African living in Marietta and the Red Cross wants me to not go back to SA for 3 consecutive years before they’ll take my blood … I’m happy to give it, but they’re afraid of the possibility of Malaria in my blood 🤷‍♀️

I can’t help but wonder why they won’t just test the blood donations for whatever they’re afraid of in the blood and then use it if it’s free from whatever they tested, and discard it otherwise. It’ll be good for me to donate anyway, because it’ll make my body generate new blood cells.

But I guess I don’t fully understand everything, so sorry America, you’re losing out on some prime African blood here! haha

GO DONATE BLOOD IF YOU CAN!!

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