• They do prefer men

    Apparently plasma from women is mostly discarded due to antibodies that women that have been pregnant can have which can be harmful. As a result there is no point doing a plasma only donation from a woman. I think they could screen for the antibody but don't for some reason.

  • Ah that’s interesting and would make sense. I had a young female colleague who went to donate and she couldn’t because they couldn’t get a good enough vein, she’d never given blood before though so I expect she would have had the same issue with that.

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