Infant deaths due to rhesus blood disease often occurs because of the difficulty of finding such a rare blood donors. One that has a rare blood was James Harrison. The old man saved the lives of millions of infants because the blood is special.
James Harrison 74-year-old Australian man, has become a blood donor for 56 years. Classified as a rare type of blood that has menyelamatkam two million more infant lives. Because of his kindness, he was dubbed the'golden-armed man' or 'people in two million people'.
Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old,and now has a total of 948 blood donations.
He has helped many mothers give birth to healthy babies, as well as a donor for her own baby, Tracey. Now your baby can grow up healthy thanks to Tracey blood grandfather.
Harrison have antibodies in their plasma, which stops the infant mortality due to Rh disease, which is one cause of hemolytic disease in new born sand is a severe form of anemia. His blood has led to the development of a vaccine called Anti-D.
"I will never stop. Never," said Harrison who promised himself to become a donor since age 14 years, after he underwent major chest surgery that requires 13 liters of blood, as reported from Dailymail, Wednesday (24 / 3 /2010).
According to him, he should be in hospital for three months while undergoing surgery. The blood that he received saved his life, and since then he promised to give his blood when he was 18 years old.
Right after he began to donate blood, he learned that his blood is kind of rare and rescuers antibodies were found in it.
At that time, thousands of babies in Australia were dying each year of Rhesus disease. Newborns others suffered permanent brain damage because of the condition.
This disease creates a mismatch between the blood of the mother and her unborn baby. This is because one of them has Rh-positive (antigen D) and the other Rh-negative (no antigen D).
After her blood type is found, Harrison volunteered 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 the hundreds of thousands of women. He also gave his blood to the baby after they were born to stop the disease developing. It is estimated that, he has saved 2.2 million babies to date.
Harrison's blood is considered so special. His life was insured for one million Australian dollars.
"I am not afraid. I am glad to help. I have to sign any form of donations and basically signed my life," said Harrison.
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