Lift blood donor ban: Tiny risk of ‘mad cow’ disease, experts say

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Lift blood donor ban: Tiny risk of ‘mad cow’ disease, experts say

Complacent cow CR Daniel Schwen on Wikimedia
The risk in New Zealand of getting vCJD from blood donors exposed in the UK has been calculated at about one in a billion [Image: Daniel Schwen on Wikipedia cc-by.3.0]
The health risk from blood shortages is now much higher than the risk of getting variant Creutzfeldt-Jackob disease from transfusions, public health e