eli5 why organs like liver, kidney, heart, lung require rejection meds, but blood transfusions apparently don’t.
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**Quick!** I need five pints of Type-O Negative blood!
That’s not too hard to come by. Oh good. And since we have the right blood type lying around, we don’t need anti rejection meds.
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**Quick!** I need a liver from a guy who had Type-O Negative blood!
Oh, man. I hate to tell you this. There’s only three livers available right now on the whole east coast, and none of them were Type-O Negative. I mean, we could give one to you .. but you’d need anti rejection meds.
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