Oh hey, an ask I can actually contribute to!
I started to donate plasma as a teenager, and they generally do a screening test for various diseases to make sure your plasma is safe to use. Lo and behold, I got a positive result for something scary.
Or rather, 10-20 scary things. All at once. HIV, HPV, the entire hepatitis alphabet - their entire catalog of things they test for!! This as a girl who'd only ever kissed guys, and had never had blood transfusions.
I went straight to a doctor, got a ton of tests done, and I was obviously clean, but I can never donate plasma again because of that one, faulty test. Scary waiting for results anyways. Because like, what if?
I started to donate plasma as a teenager, and they generally do a screening test for various diseases to make sure your plasma is safe to use. Lo and behold, I got a positive result for something scary.
Or rather, 10-20 scary things. All at once. HIV, HPV, the entire hepatitis alphabet - their entire catalog of things they test for!! This as a girl who'd only ever kissed guys, and had never had blood transfusions.
I went straight to a doctor, got a ton of tests done, and I was obviously clean, but I can never donate plasma again because of that one, faulty test. Scary waiting for results anyways. Because like, what if?