More people eligible to donate blood in Australia after ban lifts

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.

People who were in the United Kingdom during the ‘mad cow disease’ outbreak, donates blood at the Sydney Town Hall Donor Centre in Sydney, Monday, July 25, 2022. Australian health authorities are now overturning 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. (AAP Image/Steven Saphore) NO ARCHIVING Source: AAP / STEVEN SAPHORE/AAPIMAGE