When my elderly cat needed blood, what they said was that animal hospitals that need blood will have a universal donor animal available, usually one of the vet's or one of the tech's. Perhaps the problems mentioned were because of a lack of preparation/concern on the part of the vet: "Whatever, they're just animals.' I have met two of these money-grubbers (not good enough to be an MD, but somehow got into DVM school, and are just out to make money)
Human blood typing is done the same way. The types are: A, B, AB, and O, with O being universal donor (other blood types will accept without problems most of the time), and AB being universal recipient (will accept blood from any of the other types without problems most of the time). Yes, there is the Rh factor, which only has an effect with mothers and babies, and possibly severely debilitated immunodeficient people. -- "The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreaonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality, yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its' exactitude is obvious; but its' inexactitude is hidden, its' wildness lies in wait" --G. K. Chesterton _______ Mark S. Siepak -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
