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brewens

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Sun Nov-22-09 09:46 AM
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61. The testing process is not painful at all. It consists of...

running a couple of cotton swabs around inside your mouth. One of the methods of actually donating the marrow can be somewhat painful but it doesn't sound like a big deal to me.
http://www.marrow.org/JOIN/Myths_&_Facts_about_Marrow_Don/index.html
As for high risk individuals donating blood, part of the concern is the risk to the staff drawing the blood. The blood is tested for numerous infectious diseases before it's processed but accidents can happen. Accidental needle sticks or a screwup causing blood to squirt from the line or a broken bag. It's not just the possibility of an infected unit getting into the blood supply.

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