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London Agencies
United Nations agencies have launched an international blood donor campaign for a two-year-old American girl who needs multiple blood transfusions to fight a rare cancer.
According to the British network "The BBC", the girl Zainab Mughal suffers from a rare type of cancer, and makes the treatment of its condition very difficult, it is the blood group of the rarest in the world.
Activists say more than 1,000 people have been tested to donate to Zainab, but only three have the kind they need.
Doctors say that the treatment period for Zainab requires between seven and ten donors.
Earlier this year, Zainab was diagnosed with neuromuscular cancer, a rare type of cancer that affects infants and children.
The blood donation, which is the basis of Zinb's donor research, indicates that the girl will need blood transfusions throughout her treatment, but that her blood is "very rare" because she lacks the generator of "Indian B" antibody present in most red blood cells People.
Appropriate potential donors must be exclusively of Pakistani, Indian or Iranian origin and their blood group must be "A" or "O".
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