One of the questions they asked at the blood drive today be about military personnel and/or dependent family who have be stationed overseas between 1980 and 1990/1996. If you fall in this category, you are ineligible to donate blood. Why are military and their families that be on certain basis overseas during that time ineligible?

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Answers:    Between 1980 and 1996, any potential donor who was a contestant of the US military or dependent of a member of the US military and spent 6 months or more associated near a military base within any of the following countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, or Greece

This is because of Mad Cow Disease

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Well, if military personnel and families be stationed in unshakable countries they could be at higher risk for constant diseases. That would be my guess.

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