More places refusing mutant blood
Apr. 30th, 2018 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xp_newscastAP - Following up on the Mayo Clinic's decision to refuse donations from visible mutants, other blood banks and hospitals in Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama have also begun to turn away visible mutants.
"You don't know what's in these mutants' blood," said a representative of South Texas Blood & Tissue Center in San Antonio, TX. "They could have chemicals or poisons that are dangerous to regular people. What do we do if someone is infected with poison blood and dies as a result? We have a responsibility to patients to make sure the blood they're getting is safe."
When asked if they planned on testing everyone for the x-gene (the gene responsible for causing mutations), the rep said, "Right now we don't have the funds. The x-gene test is very expensive, and we get hundreds of donors a day. If we have a reason to suspect a mutation, however, we will send it to be tested."
A spokesperson for Arkansas Blood Institute in Forth Smith, AR, had a similar response. "We don't know enough about mutants yet to know if their blood would have an adverse effect on a normal person. You wouldn't let a person with HIV or AIDs or mad cow disease donate blood because it would be dangerous to the recepient. Why should letting someone with a mutation donate be any different?"
Protestors gathered at the Mayo Clinic on Saturday, April 28, to speak out against the decision. Others, meanwhile, have taken to social media to say that it's the right decision, with the hashtag #mutantbloodfree trending on Twitter over the weekend.
"You don't know what's in these mutants' blood," said a representative of South Texas Blood & Tissue Center in San Antonio, TX. "They could have chemicals or poisons that are dangerous to regular people. What do we do if someone is infected with poison blood and dies as a result? We have a responsibility to patients to make sure the blood they're getting is safe."
When asked if they planned on testing everyone for the x-gene (the gene responsible for causing mutations), the rep said, "Right now we don't have the funds. The x-gene test is very expensive, and we get hundreds of donors a day. If we have a reason to suspect a mutation, however, we will send it to be tested."
A spokesperson for Arkansas Blood Institute in Forth Smith, AR, had a similar response. "We don't know enough about mutants yet to know if their blood would have an adverse effect on a normal person. You wouldn't let a person with HIV or AIDs or mad cow disease donate blood because it would be dangerous to the recepient. Why should letting someone with a mutation donate be any different?"
Protestors gathered at the Mayo Clinic on Saturday, April 28, to speak out against the decision. Others, meanwhile, have taken to social media to say that it's the right decision, with the hashtag #mutantbloodfree trending on Twitter over the weekend.
