Health Ministry Lifts Mad Cow Disease Ban on Blood Donors
By Hamodia Staff
YERUSHALAYIM — Israel authorities have lifted a ban on blood donation by anyone who lived in the U.K. for more than six months, The Times of Israel reported on Sunday.
The ban was enacted 24 years ago when it was feared at the time that Mad Cow Disease in the U.K. could have infected humans.
Since 1999, anyone who had lived in Britain for more than six months between 1980 and 1996 or received a blood transfusion there during that period was disqualified from donating blood in Israel.
Magen Dovid Adom, which operates Israel’s national blood bank service, said in a statement that the Health Ministry has “adopted the FDA directives” on the issue and has decided “to remove the restrictions of receiving blood donations from those from Britain.”
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