If you're gay keep your heart to yourself?

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CBC just issued this article about sexually-active gays being prevented from becoming organ donors. Or are they? Sounds like there are a few groups in the organ chain of command that disagree.

I must admit it strikes me as a little odd. Like the blood thing, do the infection numbers in gay men actually warrant this distinction? I must admit that I simply don't know, but I get the impression most people don't, including those that should...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/01/07/organ-transplant.html

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Edit: Someone on a friends's blog found this link on Canadian infection rates, I've wondered about these numbers for a while so I am including them here for your perusal as well.

http://www.avert.org/canstatg.htm