ie. A, A+, etc.
2007-09-07 16:31:08 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
I can't understand why people, who have no knowledge of the topic, try to answer questions like this. I'm a medical technologist and I work in a hospital laboratory. I have been doing blood banking as part of my job in the lab for 25 years. When blood is "typed", only two blood group systems are used for labeling purposes. The ABO blood group system, which most everyone is familiar with, and the Rh system. When blood is labeled, say as, O neg, it means that the blood is type O and the D antigen in the Rh system is absent. The Rh system is very complex with a lot of antigens in it. The major ones are D, C, c, E, e,. There are many other blood group systems as well. To say which blood type is the rarest, one would have to take into account the percent of the population that contains these other blood group systems as well. I don't think your interested in that much detail, so in the simplest terms the rarest blood group that is used in routine blood banking is AB neg. Only less than 1 percent of the population has that type. AB positive is just as about as rare. O pos, and A pos are the most common type.
2007-09-07 17:06:01 · answer #1 · answered by John B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AB positive is the rarest blood type.
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2007-09-07 23:39:02 · answer #2 · answered by Kelsey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was gonna say something like Yeti or Sasquatch blood. That would be pretty rare...no one has any Yeti blood that I know of.
AB- is pretty rare. It's what my dad has and they ALWAYS love it when he shows up to donate.
2007-09-07 23:42:15 · answer #3 · answered by Willie D 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It keeps saying O blood type is rarest.
2007-09-07 23:41:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋