Speaking of donating blood, I found out that you can’t donate blood here in Hong Kong if you have lived anywhere in Europe in the last ten years.
Because of mad cow disease.
I explained to them that the cows aren’t mad at me because I’ve been a vegetarian for 25 years but they didn’t buy it.
Drats.
I guess I’ll donate when I’m back in Italy this summer. There, the concern for mad cow disease extends only to the UK.
World Blood Donor Day is coming up on June 14th (though any day is a good day to donate, if you can!)
http://www.who.int/campaigns/world-blood-donor-day/2013/en/
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