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Show throughout the country bombers might strike. " Doctors are not sure that t: synthetic plasma so far develop is as good as human plasma Hi ever, it appears' to work aswej". emergency treatments. In addition, the Bm.m... plasma has some distinct afe tages. It can be reduced to poij, form, and transported and st.-without st.-without refrigeration. It will k indefinitely in storage, vfe:' human plasma lasts only a y or so, and whole blood lasts t a few weeks. The synthetic plasma can be : jected into any patient, regard:; of blood type. Whole blood, on other hand, is of four types, t may be injected safely only t patients whose blood is of t-type t-type available. Four American companies i now making synthetic plasma. -is getting ready for production -a' sizeable scale. The synfe. plasm,a is much cheaper thi human plasma from a paid dor-Costs dor-Costs are expected to tumbler-further tumbler-further when "mass production under way. Substitute Made For Blood Plasma "American industrial research has developed synthetic blood plasma expected to save thousands of lives in case of atomic attacks on large cities. Doctors have estimated that after such an attack, 5,000,000 pints of blood plasma might be required to make up for blood lost by the wounded and shock sufferers. suf-ferers. Health authorities agree that there is not the slightest chance of building up such banks of human plasma at various places |