The Therapeutic Goods Administration has scrapped the ban on donations from people who lived in the UK, put in place in due to concern about the “mad cow” epidemic. madcowdisease
Almost three quarters of a million people across Australia who spent time in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s will become eligible to donate blood after the nation’s medical regulator lifted the ban.
“It is something we hear a lot from people: ‘Oh, I’d love to donate, but I can’t.’ For so many people living in Australia, it is just really exciting.”ABS statistics show that around 700,000 people in Australia who spent time in the UK during those two decades will be potentially able to donate, although Stone said the organisation’s modelling suggested the number of new donors would likely be “in the tens of thousands”.
While bans on donations from UK residents were put in place due to concerns about variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease , in recent years the risk of people who ate infected beef acquiring the disease has been deemed to be remote.The Therapeutic Goods Administration was contacted for comment.
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