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'Man with the golden arm' saves 2million babies in half a century of donating rare type of blood |
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 |
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dailymail.co.uk —
James
Harrison, 74, has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying
from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia. He has donated 984 times
since he was 18 years old, saving an estimated 2.2 million babies so
far. He made a pledge to be a donor aged 14 after undergoing major
chest surgery in which he needed 13 litres of blood. Read the whole story.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 30 March 2010 )
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