No Stupid Questions

Some people just say to lie for every question.

People say this? I've never heard anyone donating blood say this, and I personally would say that all precautions taken by the professionals that collect blood donations should be taken very seriously. It's not, at the end of the day, up to me to be the judge of what is or isn't a condition serious enough that my blood shouldn't be accepted. I'll give the professionals as much information as possible, and then let them judge whether or not it is safe to give my blood to someone else.

I would never even dream of lying in order to donate blood, when that could end up actively harming someone, and I honestly cannot see the argument in favour of doing that. The whole point of donating blood is helping people.

They do this because it is important. It's better to not donate, than to donate something that will kill someone.

a condition with scab formation?

Ask them if unsure but my guess is they mean conditions like Haemophilia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia

Also don't rely on their screening. I believe the test a performed on bundles of donations for efficiency and a bad donation may cause the others in that bundle to be discarded too.

Are you sure that the question wasn't asking if you have a condition which prevents scab formation? That might indicate a clotting disorder or some other problem that may make donating blood/plasma a bad idea for you.

When you give blood, often the "wrong" answer will just have them ask a followup after you submit the questionnaire. Like there is one asking if you had recently visited any of a list of countries of concern. I selected that I had because of a trip to Mexico, but I was still able to give blood that day because when they later asked which region, the one I had visited was considered safe.

I expect if you had been bitten by a mosquito in a place where that isn't a significant concern and developed no symptoms other than the itch, you would probably be approved to donate. Receiving plasma is less dangerous than receiving blood so I would be surprised if the safety evaluation is more strict.

That's fucked up to use donations as a checkup. Hope you were joking

Much love for all the phlebotomists, the diligent scientists, the ones who look at our body bits in microscopes

to correct myself

Mosquito-borne diseases or mosquito-borne illnesses are diseases caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites transmitted by mosquitoes. Nearly 700 million people contract mosquito-borne illnesses each year, resulting in more than a million deaths.[1]

Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes include malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, chikungunya, yellow fever,[2] filariasis, tularemia, dirofilariasis, Japanese encephalitis, Saint Louis encephalitis, Western equine encephalitis, Eastern equine encephalitis,[3] Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Ross River fever, Barmah Forest fever, La Crosse encephalitis, and Zika fever,[3] as well as newly detected Keystone virus and Rift Valley fever. A preprint by Australian research group argues that Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative pathogen of Buruli ulcer is also transmitted by mosquitoes.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito-borne_disease

i am very fortunate to not have to deal with any of that