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What are blood types?
The letters A, B, AB, and O represent these.
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What are platelets?
These are the tiny cells in your blood that form clots and stop bleeding.
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What is Rapid Pass?
This is the part of the blood donor app that can help save time during your donation.
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What is eat iron rich food or drink plenty of water?
This is one thing you can do prior to a blood donation to help with its success.
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What is Red Cross Month?
This annual celebration was begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943.
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What are genetics?
This is what determines your blood type.
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What is cancer?
Platelets are most often use to treat this health issue.
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What is a zip code or sponsor code?
You can find a blood drive near you by entering this on the app or website.
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What is 17 years old?
This is how old you need to be to donate blood without a parent.
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Who is Clara Barton?
This person is known as the "Angel of the Battlefield".
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What is type O-?
A person with this blood type is a universal red cell donor.
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What is every 7 days?
This is how often a person can donate platelets.
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What is start a Sleeves Up Campaign?
This is what you should do to get friends and family in other states to donate blood for your birthday.
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What is every 56 days?
This is how often a person can donate blood.
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Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
This African American surgeon pioneered new methods for collecting blood.
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What is AB RH-?
This is the rarest blood type.
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What is 2.5 to 3 hours.
This is the amount of time it takes to donate platelets.
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What are Achievement Badges?
Share these to celebrate your donation milestones with friends and family.
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What is Sickle Cell Disease?
This disease affects over 100,000 Americans.
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What is 3?
This is the number of lives that can be saved with one pint of blood.
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What is type AB?
A person with this blood type is a universal plasma donor.
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What is plasma?
During an AB elite donation, you give this - a part of your blood used to treat emergency patients.
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What is Facebook?
This social media platform started in 2004 and allows us to get the Red Cross message out.
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What is 37%?
This is the percentage of people who are able to donate blood.
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What is 1941?
The Red Cross began the National Blood Donor Service to collect blood for the U.S. military in this year.
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What is malaria?
Blood donations are not tested for this disease because there is no sensitive blood test available.
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