An Australian known as the “Man with the Golden Arm” for protecting 2.4 million babies with his rare, antibody-rich blood plasma has died at 88, health officials said.
Mr James Harrison rolled up his sleeve and donated blood 1,173 times over 64 years, Australian Red Cross organisation Lifeblood said.
His plasma contained a rare antibody, known as Anti-D, used to make a medication for mothers whose blood was at risk of attacking their unborn babies – a condition known as rhesus D haemolytic disease of the foetus and newborn
