Milica is one out of 20 people in the world with "gold" blood group: She once helped FIFA president, and now she received a thank-you letter
Now 80 year old Milica Mucalica, discovered by accident in the sixties that she is one of the rare in the planet
Milica is one out of 20 people in the world with "gold" blood group, and she even saved life of first man of FIFA! No one in the family has that blood group.
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Now 80 year old Milica Mucalica, discovered by accident in the sixties that she is one of the rare in the planet.
- When i became pregnant, i had to get a blood test and that was in 1962. They told me in the Institute for Blood Transfusion that something was not right, that they need to take my blood again, which they did - told Milica Mucalica for RTS.
When she needed blood because of the tumor surgery, the closest donor was in Canada. There was no time and the doctors had to connect capillaries to save her. As a member of an international registry of rare blood groups, Milica had the opportunity to be a d
- They took me to the Institute and took the blood because a child was born in Switzerland with my blood type. I said I'd give my blood because there was no one to give it to me. After a month, the doctor Zimić brought me a thank-you letter from Switzerland - says Mucalica.
Milica is one of 20 people on Earth with that blood type.
- "Golden Blood" is one of the so-called prime phenotype. Many systems have a zero blood phenotype. The most common suspicion in routine work on existence of prime pheromone is with patients who received blood or there war pregnancy, who are sensitive to the antigen of the blood system, which they are missing - said Biljana Zivotic from the Blood Transfusion Institute of Serbia.
People who have a rare blood type usually can help everyone, but they, unfortunately, can receive only their, a rare blood type. On the eve of the summer period, when there is a shortage of blood, Blood transfusion Institute is appealing for everybody to donate.
(Telegraf.co.uk / RTS)