a provincial hospital china from Jiangsu (east) discovered two new women with the Rhnull blood type, known as the “golden blood” for being the rarest, having been found in less than 50 people around the planet, the official newspaper reports on Tuesday Global Times.
The hospital entity found null Rh blood in the analyzes carried out on a patient suffering from severe anemia, to later confirm the same type of plasma in her older sister.
Since 1961, the date on which “golden blood” was discovered for the first time in an Australian aborigine, the people in the world confirmed with this blood in which the red blood cells do not have any Rh antigen have not reached half a hundred, adding four in total in the Asian giant.
Rhnull carriers are universal donors, which makes their plasma a very valuable type, but in turn they can only receive transfusions of the same blood, because they are incompatible with 99.9999994% of that which comes from donations.
The news of the discovery, due to its rarity, went viral on the social network WeiboChinese equivalent to the country’s censored Twitter.
More than 620 million views and comments made the post regarding it the hot topic on the platform.
“Why are people persuading these anemic women to donate blood? What are you thinking? ”, Said an Internet user in the news, making clear the value for many of the “golden blood”.
