Two-year-old Florida girl suffering from aggressive cancer in need of 'extremely rare' blood to save
Potential donors will have to satisfy numerous conditions before donating, including having to be 100% of Pakistani, Iranian, or Indian descent
A two-year-old south Florida girl suffering from an aggressive form of cancer is in desperate need of extremely rare blood to save her life. Zainab Mughal is afflicted with neuroblastoma and requires blood transfusions and bone marrow transplants for treatment. However, her rare blood type — she's missing a common antigen called "Indian B" (Inb) in her blood — means any willing donor must also have the A or O blood type and also be missing the Inb antigen because her body will reject any other blood.
According to the , Zainab's parents got the devastating news that she was suffering from neuroblastoma — a cancer that most commonly affects children aged five or younger — two months ago. The fact that the two-year-old had a rare blood type complicated matters further.
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