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History of Blood Transfusion and Rarest Blood in the World

Coming to the crux of our discussion, it would be safe to say that, the rarest blood group is Rh Null. If a person lacks all the 61 antigens of the Rh Blood grouping system, then he/she is said to have Rh null blood group. Rh null, which is also known as the u201cGolden Bloodu201d is the rarest blood in the world. Rh null was first discovered in 1961 and in the span of many decades that have passed since then only 43 people in the entire Earth. Visit www.guidebooktolife.com/lesser-known-facts-about-human-blood-groups-including-the-rarest-blood-groupin-the-world

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History of Blood Transfusion and Rarest Blood in the World

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  1. History of Blood Transfusion and Rarest Blood in the World

  2. History of Blood Transfusion Loss of blood from the human body has been a cause of concern from very ancient times, giving rise to attempts to understand blood flow better. The circulation of the blood was first discovered by an English physician in 1628. The initial attempt to correct blood loss by transfusion of blood of another was seen to be successful for the first time in 1665 AD, when the British physician Richard Lower successfully transfused blood, between dogs. Soon attempts were made by other physicians, to transfuse blood from dogs to animals. Needless to say, these procedures had disastrous consequences & unfortunate deaths in people, which finally stopped this dangerous procedure.

  3. Most Important Blood Group Systems It was Karl Landsteiner, who in 1901, proved that all Blood in humans are not exactly the same and gave the concept of ABO blood group system. Based on Landsteiner’s work, the first successful blood transfusion took place in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in 1907. His work would change radically the way human blood transfusion was looked upon, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1930 for his accomplishments. These blood groups depend on the presence of blood group antigens. The surface of every red blood cell in the human body has certain proteins & sugars, which are known as blood group antigens, which determine the blood type of every individual.

  4. Rarest Blood Type in the World Lot many times, the question has been asked as, what is the rarest blood type in the world? In spite of some country-based variance in the broad majority of cases, consensus will be on AB negative. In the United States, AB negative has been considered as the rarest blood group. The rarest blood group in India and also in the UK is AB negative blood group. However, this is a gross oversimplification of facts. The 8 blood groups discussed above can again be subdivided into many different types, depending on multiple varieties of antigen combinations. It would be prudent to mention here that there are an estimated 342 antigen molecules, present in the surface of red blood cells.

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