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Health Ministry calls for end to ban on Ethiopian blood donations
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Health Ministry calls for an end to a ban on blood donations from Israelis of Ethiopian origin. The ban is in place due to fears of HIV-infected blood being passed to a recipient.
The ministry recommends that the ban now only apply to those who spent more than a year in Ethiopia and have been in Israel for less than 12 months since then, Walla says.
There is also a ban on blood donations by Israelis of British origin, due to fears of contagion with Creutzfeldt–Jakob (aka Mad Cow) disease, which was prevalent in the 1980s.
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