Rare Human Blood Save Millions of Lives Babies

Infant deaths due to rhesus blood disease often occurs because of the difficulty to find rare blood donors. One who has a rare blood was James Harrison. The old man had saved millions of lives because the blood that special baby.

James Harrison 74-year-old Australian man, has become a blood donor for 56 years. The blood that has been relatively rare species menyelamatkam two million more babies lives. Because of his kindness, he was dubbed 'the golden-armed man' or 'man in the two million people'.

Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years, and now has 948 total blood donations.

 He has helped many mothers gave birth to healthy babies, including also a donor for her own baby, Tracey. Now the baby can grow healthy Tracey blood thanks to his grandfather.

Harrison has the antibodies in the plasma, which stopped the infant mortality due to Rh disease, which is one cause of hemolytic disease in newborns and is a severe form of anemia. Blood has led to the development of vaccines, called Anti-D.

"I'll never stop. Never," said Harrison who promised himself to be the donor since the age of 14 years, after he underwent major chest surgery that requires 13 liters of blood, as reported from Dailymail.

According to him, he should be in the hospital for three months while undergoing surgery. The blood he received saved his life, and since then he promised to give his blood when he was 18 years old.

Right after he started to donate blood, he learned that his blood is kind of rare and rescue antibodies were found in it.

At that time, thousands of babies dying each year in Australia because of Rhesus disease. Another newborn baby suffered permanent brain damage because of the condition.

This disease creates a mismatch between the blood of the mother and the unborn baby. This is because one of them has Rh-positive (has the D antigen) and the other Rh-negative (no antigen D).

After her blood type was found, Harrison offered to undergo a series of tests to help develop anti-D vaccine. Harrison has Rh-negative and he was given an injection of Rh-positive blood.

Harrison has given his blood on hundreds of thousands of women. He also gives his blood to the baby after they were born to stop the disease developing. Predictably, he has saved 2.2 million babies until recently.

Harrison's blood is considered so special. Her life had been insured for one million Australian dollars.

"I am not afraid. I'm happy to help. I have to sign any form of donation and basically signed my life," said Harrison.