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Originally posted by CaptainCrunch+Sep 12 2004, 12:32 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (CaptainCrunch @ Sep 12 2004, 12:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>I don't know about the morality of the issue. however, if person A was at risk of something like the West Nile virus, or Aids or any other type of blood disease and decided to use blood doning as a quick test you have to consider this.
We've seen disease get through the tests. What if one of the lab techs is having a bad day and your infected blood gets through and infects people. Who's criminally responsible if you knew you were at rish and informed somebody.
Its happened before and nothing is impossible[/b]
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You're given the option, after filling your donation, of putting a bar code on it that tells the Canadian Blood Services (no longer Red Cross) whether your blood should be used or not. This is a system that allows people to confidentially tell them that their blood shouldn't be used, in case they're reluctant to truthfully answer the questionnaire.
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Confidential Unit Exclusion Label
There may be circumstances where a donor may not answer the Record of Donation questionnaire truthfully. In some cases, owing to the personal nature of the questions, a donor may be uncomfortable with providing certain pieces of information. In other cases, donors may be reluctant to tell friends, family or colleagues that they have been deferred—and thus continue with the donation to avoid answering uncomfortable questions.
To guard against such situations, the CBS employee provides the donor with two bar-coded labels. One indicates that the donor’s blood can be used and the other asks that the blood not be used. Once the appropriate sticker has been placed on the Record of Donation, no one at the clinic can determine which one was chosen. It is only later, in the laboratory, that a technician will scan the label with a bar-code reader before the unit is processed to determine whether or not it may be used.[/quote]
I'd say if you suspect yourself of a disease and use the "don't use my blood" label, you should be able to sleep at night with no moral qualms. If you use the other label in an attempt just to get yourself tested, putting your faith in the tests...probably immoral. No matter what, sounds like it was probably an interesting debate to keep you awake on a Saturday, BA...
...actually, I dunno if they still test the blood if a "no" label is on it, or just toss it out the window...