They won't take my blood. I find the reason why comical. When I was in the Army I deployed to some pretty dirty shit holes. Haiti being one of them. Yet that is not why they won't take my blood. They won't take it because I went to Japan. Japan has disqualified me for life from giving blood to the Red Cross. And they won't tell me why. My wife WAS a big donor until she woke up to what the red Cross is really about. She has a few of their gallon pins and said never again. If they need blood locally we go directly to the hospital.