India's first and world's tenth unique blood group found in Gujarat man

India's first and world's tenth unique blood group found in Gujarat man

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: July 18 2022

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In a first, a new blood group has been found in India, which is also the rarest in the world.
A 65-year-old man from Gujarat who is a heart patient has been identified with EMM negative blood group, a unique blood type which cannot be categorized into the existing groups of ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘O’ or ‘AB’.
In general, there are four types of blood groups in the human body, which further consist of 42 types of systems, like A, B, O, Rh and Duffy.
There are also 375 types of antigens in which EMM is high.
Due to the lack of EMM in the blood, the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) has named it EMM negative.
People with such rarest blood groups can neither donate their blood to anyone, nor can they acquire it from anyone.

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