French scientists have discovered a new blood type in a woman from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, France’s blood supply agency announced Friday.
The woman is the only known carrier of a new blood type, dubbed “Gwada negative,” the French Blood Establishment (EFS) said. The discovery was made 15 years after researchers received a blood sample from a patient who was undergoing routine tests ahead of a surgery.
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This woman “is undoubtedly the only known case in the world,” he said, adding: “She is the only person in the world who is compatible with herself.”
Is that wording right? If I understand correctly it should say “is only compatible with herself”? or am I missing something?
Well its a negative type, so her blood can be given normally to others. If she was also o-, her blood could also be given to nearly the entire world, but the only blood she could get would be her own.
There’s lots of really rare blood types. Getting a new positive type basically means you can’t donate blood, getting a new negative type means you can’t get it from others, but could give it.
Splitting hairs a bit but if you want to be precise here you need two 'only’s in that sentence, ‘she is the only person whose only compatible donor is herself’.
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Who’d have thought literacy is a valuable skill? My father, thank goodness.