NEW BLOOD GROUPING
O.C. SYDNEY, February 13. Application of a new blood grouping discovered overseas in experiments on monkeys saved the life of a baby in a Hobart (Tasmania) hospital. The baby appeared healthy- when porn, but two days later showed symptoms of a diseasel known as very severe jaundice of the new-born. This disease has a heavy mortality rate. An hour after the baby became ill it was dying. Its life was saved by a blood transfusion from a man with "EH negative" blood grouping. The "RH factor" is an additional agglutination in • the red blood cells possessed by 85 per cent, of persons. These are ffEH positive." The other 15 per cent., to which the baby belonged, are "KH negative,? ":
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 49, 27 February 1945, Page 4
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