Tuuin t1_itp4nyu wrote on October 25, 2022 at 8:03 AM

Reply to comment by Cheetahs_never_win in The cutting-edge cellular therapies aiming to ease America's organ shortage. Major transplantation surgeries could one day become outpatient procedures. by Sariel007

Could do both and help a lot of people.

Cheetahs_never_win t1_itq91t6 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 2:49 PM

I don't understand why people are downvoting me. I'm a monogamous gay man.

I can't donate blood. But my organs are perfectly a-ok.

facepalm

RivetheadGirl t1_itspde5 wrote on October 26, 2022 at 12:43 AM

It's a stupid rule, but it's being re-evaluated. Organ donation doesn't have that requirement, because on the off chance that a person has hepatitis, HIV/AIDS or other similar transmissable diseases, they will just find a patient who is already positive for that disease, and a match and just do the transplant and then continue to treat them after.