Word: shabalala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zulu Type. While her patient was recovering, Dr. Molthan sent blood samples to research centers around the world. From London came a suggestion: Mrs. Hutson's blood seemed to be of the Shabalala type, named for Mrs. Elizabeth Shabalala, 42, a handsome, strapping Zulu in whom the type was first detected in Johannesburg, by Dr. Maurice Shapiro, after she had had a succession of stillbirths and miscarriages. With that information on hand, Dr. Molthan and the obstetricians knew they had an extraordinary problem to cope with when Mrs. Hutson became pregnant again last spring. She might need blood during...
...Bank. The Temple doctors decided that somehow they must have compatible blood on hand for the delivery. Dr. Molthan took a pint of Mrs. Hutson's own blood and stored it. She cabled South Africa, and back by refrigerated air freight came a pint of Mrs. Shabalala's blood. Said Mrs. Shabalala, a darkroom technician in Johannesburg: "The doctor had to talk to me for a long time before I agreed to give blood-it is a procedure entirely foreign to the normal African." At Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Richard Rosenfield alerted a Puerto Rican...
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