Unexpected Connections
His Blood Helped Save 2.4 Million Babies. It Started at 14.
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His Blood Helped Save 2.4 Million Babies. It Started at 14.

2011. A blood donation center in Australia.

Two men sit side by side, sleeves rolled up.

The older man is James Harrison. Today, he is making his 1,000th donation.

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The young man beside him is his grandson, Scott. He is making his very first.

It looks like a sweet family moment.

It is much more than that.

Without the donations of the man in the next chair, Scott might never have been born.

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And Scott is not the only one. Over his lifetime, James would be credited with helping save 2.4 million babies.

In Australia, they called him the man with the golden arm.

How does one man's blood help save millions of babies?

The answer begins six decades earlier, with a 14-year-old boy in a hospital bed.
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