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Most countries now restrict blood donations from those who lived in the UK, including Australia, Canada and the United States.

Canada Blood Service page

Australia Blood Donor Page (PDF)

United States FDA and University of Houston Donation restrictions

And the following is criteria in Hawaii as of May 2002:

What are the new deferral criteria?
As of May 15, 2002, people with a history of the following are no longer eligible to donate blood:

• Residence in the U.K. for 3 months or more, between 1980 and 1996.
• Recipients of a blood transfusion in the U.K., between 1980 and the present.
• Residence in Europe for five years or more, between 1980 and the present.
• Military personnel (current and former) and their dependents, who spent time on military bases in Europe for six months or more between 1980 and 1996.