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Blood Facts to Know and Share
- If you began donating blood at the age of 17 and
donated every 56 days until you reached the age of 76, you would have
donated 48 gallons of blood.
- There is no upper age limit for giving blood.
- Each unit of blood you donated can help save the
lives of three different people.
- In the United States, a blood transfusion is needed
about every two seconds.
- One in 10 people entering the hospital need blood.
- Up to 12 tests, nine of which are for infectious
diseases, are performed on each unit of donated blood.
- While 60 percent of the general public are eligible
to donate blood, only five percent of the medically eligible population
give blood.
- The average adult body contains 10 to 12 pints of
blood.
- Trauma victims may use as many as 40 pints or more
of blood.
- The average blood transfusion is 3.4 pints.
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