India's First Unique Blood Group
July 19 , 2022
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- A man from Gujarat who is a heart patient has been identified with EMM negative blood group.
- It is India's first and world's tenth case of unique blood group.
- It cannot be categorized into the existing groups of ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘O’ or ‘AB’.
- There are four types of blood groups in the human body.
- It further consists of 42 types of systems, like A, B, O, Rh and Duffy.
- There are also 375 types of antigens in which EMM is high.
- However, there are only 10 such people in the world who do not have EMM high-frequency antigen in their blood.
- It makes them different from normal humans.
- People with such rarest blood groups can neither donate their blood to anyone, nor can they acquire it from anyone.
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