Friday 9 March 2007

Interesting Facts!

Are you A+, B+, O- or AB-??

Yes, I am talking about your blood group!

My First Question:
Which is the rarest blood type??

Well if your guess is AB-, you are half correct! In the UK, only 1% of the population is AB-, while around 37% are O+, which is the most common blood group around. Among the MAJOR blood group, AB- is the rarest.

But there are MINOR blood group. Heard of blood groups that is called CwD-/CwD- or Rhnull or S-s-U(+) or Sc:-1 ??? Because of unique inheritance from unique population or ethncity. With a confusing mix of deep ancestral migration. And here you go! A group type you will never hear before!

My Second Question:
Do you think blood type of a person can change?

Well, I doesn't believe at first, but YES, they do change! But at very rarely situation. In such situation is recovering for acute myeloid leukaemia. There are reports about an individual experience changes of blood group after recover from the serious illness. That is probably the main reason that the current Singapore Identity Card (IC) exclude your blood group. A few years ago, Singapore IC contains information of your blood group (it is on mine too), but in recent years, they excluded that information. Those that IC is green or IC is old, can approach imran! His IC is the new one!

Zhiwei

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