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SubjectRe: The British Secret Service...[was Re: Republicanism still an offence in Eng
FromCelaeno
Date2002-05-08 01:44 (2002-05-08 01:44)
Message-ID<3cd7ef7d.4006409@news.world-online.no>
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You will not evade me, Henriette Frans <ch.frans@chello.nl>:

Henriette Frans
Celaeno wrote:

Celaeno
You will not evade me, Henriette Frans <ch.frans@chello.nl>:

Henriette Frans
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Celaeno
and also mentioned the African people. As it is your hobby,

You're mistaking hobby with interesting thing :)

Henriette Frans
What else is a hobby but an interest thing?:-)

You have the faintest idea how many hobbies I'd have if I rated everything that interested me as a hobby? :)

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Celaeno
The antibodies are triggered by carrying a child with the 'wrong' bloodtype or by receiving the 'wrong' bloodtype in a transfusion - after that, the next baby or transfusion gets messed up, with the antibodies making the alien bloodtype begin to coagulate.

Henriette Frans
But receiving the wrong bloodtype in a transfusion is history, surely?

Yes and no. I've heard that they mix a little donated blood with the recipient's before performing a transfer, just to make sure. And even though bloodtype 0 is considered a universal donor and that 'everyone can receive it', that is only the case if the 0 blood doesn't contain many A and B antibodies. Then you have to take into account all the other different blood type classification - the rarest blood type ever was shared by two siblings, and the brother regularly went to the blood bank to put some away in case something happened to him.

I had blood transfusions when I was a baby, and for many years my mother thought that because of that, my blood wasn't 'my own'. I had to explain to her that blood is completely renewed from the marrow in a matter of weeks :)

Celaeno
What did the article say about ABO distribution?

I'd tell you if only I could find the thing... it went into some theories about human migration patterns based on it.

Henriette Frans
As it is your interest thing :-), please let me know if you find the article or come across anything relating to the subject. It is obviously also my interest thing..........

Heh. I went through the latest few issues of that magazine and couldn't find it. I bet it's in the newest issue *not* in that pile, and I have no clue where that one is :)

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