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More people eligible to donate blood in Australia after ban lifts

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Many more people living Australia will now be able to donate blood, after a restriction that's been in place for more than twenty years was removed. Australian health authorities overturned the decades-long ban on blood donors who lived in the UK between 1980 and 1996, after the prohibition was introduced in 2000 to stop the spread of mad cow disease.


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By Joe Axiaq, Sunil Awasthi

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Many more people living Australia will now be able to donate blood, after a restriction that's been in place for more than twenty years was removed. Australian health authorities overturned the decades-long ban on blood donors who lived in the UK between 1980 and 1996, after the prohibition was introduced in 2000 to stop the spread of mad cow disease.



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