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Americans supply two-thirds of the world's blood plasma. The industry is worth over $24 billion today, according to the Marketing Research Bureau, and that number could nearly double by 2027 ...

Private Roy W. Humphrey is being given blood plasma after he was wounded by shrapnel in Sicily in August 1943. Wikimedia Commons Most fatalities in World War I occurred not from the direct ...