SC - Re: SC: Use of Medicinal Leeches

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And it came to pass on 8 Sep 00,, that KallipygosRed at aol.com wrote:

> It is the same thing that is wrong with a diabetics, or an aid's victim.
> The blood itself carries the disease that afflicts the person--in this
> case, one that causes thickening of the blood--and so would create the
> disease in the person you use it on. That is the theory, anyway. I know in
> some extreme emergencies they have used diabetic blood. I know that is why
> I cannot give it. I had hepatitus as child.
> 
> Lars

But diabetes is not contagious.  At worst, a diabetic's blood would have 
some extra glucose in it, which would not pose a problem.  In some 
areas, diabetics can donate blood.


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