How do you make blood safe? According to the World Health Organization, you take it from volunteer donors who are not paid and who have no reason to lie about their health. Plenty of studies show that when donors are paid, they are more likely to lie about it. Obviously they do: they want to keep getting paid. Paid donors are also more likely to come from sections of society that have poor health to begin with. But the US blood supply has always rested on commerce and transaction. After the Second World War, countries such as the UK, France, and the Netherlands developed a non-remunerated
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