Does This Worry You?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40669950

[goodgoalie]

Now sex workers can give blood '3 months after their last sexual activity' - so only not very busy ones, then?

[ToraToraTora]

and how will we verify? Have they got to fill in a form every time?

[ToraToraTora]

I mean every time they have sex

[Old_Geezer]

It'll be recorded on their tax form.

[jim360]

I don't see why it should, if it's going hand-in-hand with improvements in accuracy for blood tests.

[Lie-in King]

No.

[ummmm]

Nope.

[gulliver1]

AOG , what a belter,

[Zacs-Master]

Not unduly. Does it worry you Tora?

[Garaman]

It does the opposite to me, and gives me reassurance that we will be relying on better testing methods rather than on what donors disclose.

[ummmm]

AOG?

[mikey4444]

I can't understand why they are planning to let common prostitutes give blood.

[Zacs-Master]

When would a 'sex worker' have 3 months off?

[mikey4444]

lol Zacs !

[Zacs-Master]

I,was being serious, actually.

[mikey4444]

So am I Zacs. I am not convinced that these new testing arrangements are going to be 100% reliable, otherwise why would they need a prostitute to abstain from sex for 3 months ?

[Baldric]

Because

///Scientists agree that three months is a comfortably long window for a virus or infection to appear and be picked up in the blood///.

[ToraToraTora]

that's the thing they say they can donate after not having sex for 3 months but they do not say how that is going to verified.

[pixie374]

Why don't they take the donation and then test it? Instead of testing a sample, hoping for the best for 3 months and then taking the donation?

[mikey4444]

Why not just keep not taking donations from prostitutes ?