Latino Blood cells: Universal soldiers!

[The Backlash Cometh]

I had to laugh. The medically advanced United States of America is just now finding out that the majority of hispanics have type O blood, which is universally usuable.

I bet the conservatives are sorry now that they didn't support better AIDS awareness for spanish-speaking communities. What goes around...

Blood banks seek more Latino donations
Hispanic population more likely to have ‘universal donor’ blood

Updated: 4:41 p.m. ET Aug 27, 2007
WASHINGTON - Blood banks look at the nation’s Hispanic population boom and see an unexpected potential to save thousands of lives: the possibility of more so-called universal blood donors.

It turns out that Latinos are more likely than the average American to have Type O blood, the type blood banks value most because it can be used by so many patients.

That potential so far is mostly untapped. Now blood banks are beginning major efforts to boost Latino donations, amid concern that the blood supply could face a serious imbalance if population shifts bring more demand for Type O transfusions without a parallel increase in giving.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20464500/

[EFerrari]

1. Wait till they find out we taste like chicken, too.

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

3. Pork, actually

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

4. Hey, carnitas!

lol

[Xipe Totec]

7. The Carib indians called white men,

long pigs.

The aztecs said the greatest import from the old world to the new was pork, because it tasted just like human.

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

9. I wouldn't know from Aztecs. My people were further South

waiting for the Marines. :hi:

[Xipe Totec]

10. Are the Maya having Luaus too?

[hobbit709]

5. Long pig

[Xipe Totec]

8. bingo! n/t

[TlalocW]

11. Now if only some other ethnic group

Tasted like mole. I'd be goin' all Soylent Green on your asses. :)

Mmmmm... Pollo con mole.

TlalocW

[Xipe Totec]

2. Here's another kicker....

Google for Charles Richard Drew.

(in case you don't find the right link)

black American physician and surgeon who was an authority on the preservation of human blood for transfusion.

Drew resigned his official posts in 1942 after the armed forces ruled that the blood of blacks would be accepted but would have to be stored separately from that of whites.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9031188/Charles-Richard-Drew

[hobbit709]

6. I'm the opposite AB+

Universal acceptor.

[sakabatou]

12. Me too

[Posteritatis]

13. Isn't AB+ *plasma* a universal donor? (nt)