Facts, please.

[conuly]

If somebody has type AB blood, they don't *need* their relatives to donate! AB! Universal recipient!

And if I know that little factoid, every single writer on the face of the Earth needs to know it too. Sheesh.

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[conuly]

Yeah, it was AB-, but all the same, that's still A- and B- and O- as possibilities.

They looked on Wikipedia long enough to see that AB- is the rarest of the common blood types, but not long enough to see that it accepts half of all of the common blood types out there!

[leora.livejournal.com]

True, but you still generally want an exact match for large blood transfers, if I recall correctly. The problem is you don't want the donated blood attacking the recipient. In small blood transfusions, this isn't enough to be a problem, but I was told it could be in large-scale medical problems.

I could, of course, be wrong.

[conuly]

That does make sense.