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Show Nation Receives $76 Million in Surplus Blood The American Red Cross has distributed more than $76,000,000 worth of free plasma and other blood derivatives processed from wartime surpluses since the end of hostilities, it has been announced. an-nounced. Of the 13.326,000 blood donations dona-tions by the American people through the Red Cross during the war, the military returned to the Red Cross for civilian distribution dis-tribution more than 4,700,000 units of plasma. More than 3,300,000 of these units have been furnished without with-out charge to state health departments de-partments for distribution to physicians and hospitals for treatment of the sick and Injured. Injur-ed. Several hundred thousand additional ad-ditional units have been used In research to develop new uses for blood and its derivatives, while additional quantities have been broken up into various plasma derivatives, principally gamma globulin, for medical use. Approximately 600,000 units of this latter substance, 'used in the prevention or modification of measles, were distributed to physicians phy-sicians in the last fiscal year. |