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Post by Jane on Oct 16, 2020 6:20:01 GMT -7
I was reading an article in the paper which had all sorts of questions and answers one of which was: "Can animals give blood?". The Royal Veterinary College in London gives around 600 transfusions to pets each year. There are blood banks for cats and dogs to donate to.
Different fish have different blood types so trout blood couldn't be given to a goldfish for example, but birds can donate to any other bird.
Jane
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Post by Adele on Oct 16, 2020 19:23:59 GMT -7
Wow, that is interesting. One of my friends from grad school works a lot in immunology. She was telling me an interesting fact the other day about cheetahs. Around 10,000 years ago, most of them had died off and only a mother and her cubs survived (or something like that). So now, they are all very inbred and genetically identical. Due to that, any cheetah can give an organ transplant (or blood donation) to any other cheetah and there's never a concern of an immune response, because their own cells cannot recognize the transplant as foreign.
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Post by Haz on Oct 17, 2020 10:06:09 GMT -7
I never thought about animals donating blood but it makes sense.
Haz
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