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   However agency will still bar men who have had sex with another   
   man in the previous year from donating, a policy criticized by   
   activists.   
      
   HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU IDIOTS GOING TO KNOW THIS?  ALL FAGGOTS LIE!   
      
   US government health officials are lifting the nation’s 32-year-   
   old lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men,   
   but major restrictions will remain on who can donate.   
      
   The ban had been aimed at preventing the transmission of HIV,   
   the virus which causes Aids, but medical groups and gay   
   activists have long said the ban could no longer be justified,   
   based on modern testing methods. The US Food and Drug   
   Administration said Monday that the change is “backed by sound   
   science and continues to protect our blood supply”.   
      
   Officials are replacing the blanket ban with a policy barring   
   donations from men who have had sex with another man in the   
   previous year. While the policy has been criticized by   
   activists, the FDA stance is in line with that of other   
   countries, including Australia and Britain. The US lifetime ban   
   was put in place during the early Aids crisis.   
      
   The agency said people with hemophilia and related blood-   
   clotting disorders will continue to be banned from donating   
   blood due to potential harm they could suffer from large   
   needles. Previously they were banned due to an increased risk of   
   transmitting HIV.   
      
   The agency said it has also put in place a safety monitoring   
   system for the blood supply, which it expects to provide   
   “critical information” to help inform future FDA blood donor   
   policies.   
      
   “Ultimately, the 12-month deferral window is supported by the   
   best available scientific evidence, at this point in time,   
   relevant to the US population,” Dr. Peter Marks, deputy director   
   of the FDA’s biologics division, said in a statement. Several   
   countries, including the United Kingdom and Australia, have 12-   
   month deferrals.   
      
   During the change in Australia from an indefinite blood donor   
   deferral policy – essentially a ban – to a 12-month deferral,   
   studies evaluating more than 8 million units of donated blood   
   were performed using a national blood surveillance system, the   
   FDA said.   
      
   “These published studies document no change in risk to the blood   
   supply with use of the 12-month deferral,” the agency said.   
   “Similar data are not available for shorter deferral intervals.”   
      
   The agency said its policies to date have helped reduce HIV   
   transmission rates from blood transfusions from 1 in 2,500 to 1   
   in 1.47 million.   
      
   http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/21/fda-lifts-ban-   
   blood-donations-gay-bisexual-men   
      
   The only acceptable transmission rate is zero.  AIDS / HIV is   
   not the only thing these faggots spread with their contaminated   
   blood.   
      
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