Q: What month is declared
National Blood Donor Month by the President of the United States?
A: January |
Q: What animal is most
often associated with blood banks?
A: The vampire bat,
which by the way, takes as much as 18 minutes to drink its fill of
blood from a victim, far longer than its victim's blood would normally
need to clot. But vampire bat saliva contains enzymes to dissolve
any clots that form. Biologists are now looking at using these
substances to help fight human heart disease. |
Q: What rock group of
the '70's sang "Spinning Wheel?"
A: Blood, Sweat & Tears |
Q: What country rewards
its blood donors by giving a monetary contribution to a favorite charity
in the donor's name?
A: Denmark, also
the home of the original Boy Scout organization. Giving blood
is definitely a "good deed." |
Q: What country is reported
to offer an extra vacation day and preferential access to resorts (in addition
to the customary 2 days off - one day to give blood and another day to
recuperate) - and two free meals for each volunteer blood donation?
A: The Soviet Union |
Q: What country is reputed
to have organized its military units by their blood types during WWII?
A: Germany is said
to have done this. Rommel's famed Afrika Korps is supposed
to have been all A's. |
Q: How many units of
blood did President Ronald Reagan require after the assassination attempt?
A: 12 total - 8
units of red blood cell, 3 units of fresh frozen plasma and 1 unit
of apheresis platelets (FFP and apheresis platelets are single donor
blood products whereby, through a give and take procedure, more of
one specific part of the blood can be obtained from a single donor.) |
Q: In what major war
in the United States were the first two transfusion events recorded?
A: In the Civil
War, a syringed direct transfusion was successfully performed on
two occasions. (There were no blood groups identified at this
time so much would have to be attributed to luck rather than skill.) |
Q: During which war
was preserved anticoagulated blood introduced?
A: During the First
World War in 1917. An American Captain Oswald H. Robertson
introduced a new method of storing blood at a British casualty clearing
station by storing it in bottles for 14 days. |
Q: What fact relates
a garden club favorite to human blood types?
A: On day lily pollen,
ABO substances can be identified. ABO substances can also be
identified on many other things in nature. |
Q: How many blood types
do cows have?
A: 800 and possibly
more. |
Q: How many blood types
do cats have?
A: Four. |
Q: How many red blood
cells can be manufactured each second in the human body's amazing "production
line?"
A: 17,000,000 red
blood cells per second, and seven times that amount when stress percipitates
a need. |
