Travel (malaria risk, 24 hours or less) — can I give blood? (Canadian Blood Services)
What is the waiting period for Travel (malaria risk, 24 hours or less) — can I give blood? (Canadian Blood Services)?
For Travel (malaria risk, 24 hours or less), waiting period is 21 days; condition is if you have spent 24 hours or less in Mexico, Central America, South America or the Caribbean, and were in an area with a risk of malaria; outcome is temporary deferral; blood service is Canadian Blood Services, recorded from its source on 2026-08-06.
If you have spent 24 hours or less in Mexico, Central America, South America or the Caribbean
— blood.ca, retrieved 2026-08-06
21 days
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
- Travel (malaria risk, 24 hours or less)
- Blood service
- Canadian Blood Services our reading
- Waiting period
- 21 days
- Condition
- if you have spent 24 hours or less in Mexico, Central America, South America or the Caribbean, and were in an area with a risk of malaria
- Outcome
- temporary deferral 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
- blood.cahttps://www.blood.ca/en/blood/am-i-eligible-donate-blood/eligibility/travel-living-abroad