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Here's one of those chart thingies to show you the national distribution of all the various blood groups.

Click on your blood type below for more information:

Frequency of major blood groups in the UK population

O positive blood Rh (D) Pos 37%
O negative blood Rh (D) Neg 7%
Total Blood Type O

    44%
A positive blood Rh (D) Pos 35%
A negative blood Rh (D) Neg 7%
Total Blood Type A

    42%
B positive blood Rh (D) Pos 8%
B negative blood Rh (D) Neg 2%
Total Blood Type B

    10%
AB positive blood Rh (D) Pos 3%
AB negative blood Rh (D) Neg 1%
Total Blood Type AB

    4%
Total Rh (D) Pos 83%
Total Rh (D) Neg 17%


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Ruth

Ruth Major, a teacher in Rochdale, Lancashire, has just made her fiftieth donation. She has a way to go to catch up with her father who gave 61 - but to ensure the tradition of blood donation is kept alive in the family she has already enlisted her two sons.

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