Can you donate blood if you get cold sores?

Donate blood, if you get cold sores?

  • Can you donate blood if you get cold sores? because isn't the virus in your blood, so if they use your blood for someone else doesn't it get passed on to them?

  • Answer:

    Potential donors with active herpes simplex (cold sores) that have blisters or are weeping are not eligible to donate blood until after the lesion has scabbed over.

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