James Harrison has retired after saving the lives of more than 2.4
million babies by donating his blood over the past 60 years.
The "man with the golden arm", as he has been dubbed,
told The Sydney Morning Herald that his retirement was "a sad day"
and "the end of a long run".
Mr Harrison's blood contains an extremely rare antibody in his
plasma which is used to develop medicine to prevent newborns from dying from
Rhesus disease.
The medicine, anti-D, is given to
pregnant mothers whose rhesus negative blood is at risk of attacking her baby's
rhesus positive blood.
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