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Re:Man donated blood every week for 60 years, saved 2.4M babies by gus_massa on Friday May 11, 2018 @06:41PM (#17051235)
It's a nice contribution for the humanity, but I still don't believe that the 2.4M babies calculation is correct. Did his blood save the 2.4M babies or the blood of all the similar donors saved the 2.4M babies?

Also, how can he make so many donations? IIRC you can only donate blood every two month or something like that. Did they remove the plasma and return the red cells or they just made an exception because the rare condition and the good health?

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Re:Man donated blood every week for 60 years, saved 2.4M babies by metabagel on Friday May 11, 2018 @07:14PM (#17051383)
He donates plasma. He's one of only approximately 50 people in Australia who have the necessary antibodies.
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Re:Man donated blood every week for 60 years, saved 2.4M babies by refurb on Friday May 11, 2018 @08:41PM (#17051767)
The 2.4M is possible if every donation produces hundreds of doses of anti-D.

However, if his blood didn't exist women just wouldn't have the additional kids as it would be known their body would attack the fetuses blood.

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