The wife just commented that someone at work today had said she had been turned down to give blood because she's had a blood transfusion since 1980. I thought that was ridiculous so we checked out the Health Check on the National Blood Transfusion website and it turns out that you'd pretty much have had to have lived in a hemetically sealed box for the last 30 years in order to be able to donate!
I'm guessing that it's CJD that's the issue, but if that's the case, then why doesn't the exclusion extend to anyone who might be infected (i.e. anyone who has eaten beef in the last however many years).
