Ebola Disease (Diagnosis or Exposure) — can I give blood? (American Red Cross (US))
What is the waiting period for Ebola Disease (Diagnosis or Exposure) — can I give blood? (American Red Cross (US))?
For Ebola Disease (Diagnosis or Exposure), waiting period is permanent exclusion; condition is if you have ever had Ebola disease; 8 weeks after travel to a country with an Ebola outbreak or after exposure; outcome is permanent exclusion; blood service is American Red Cross (US), recorded from its source on 2026-08-06.
You are not eligible to donate if you have ever had Ebola disease.
— redcrossblood.org, retrieved 2026-08-06
permanent exclusion
How long you must wait before donating (or the age/weight bound), exactly as this blood service prints it — the passage it comes from is quoted on the record page. National services genuinely disagree on the same criterion; check the service you would donate with.
- Criterion
- Ebola Disease (Diagnosis or Exposure)
- Blood service
- American Red Cross (US) our reading
- Waiting period
- permanent exclusion
- Condition
- if you have ever had Ebola disease; 8 weeks after travel to a country with an Ebola outbreak or after exposure
- Outcome
- permanent exclusion our reading
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
Source
- redcrossblood.orghttps://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/eligibility-requirements/eligibility-criteria-alphabetical.html