{"id":251510,"date":"2025-03-04T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/james-harrison-whose-antibodies-helped-millions-dies-at-88\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:26:08","slug":"james-harrison-whose-antibodies-helped-millions-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/james-harrison-whose-antibodies-helped-millions-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harrison, Whose Antibodies Helped Millions, Dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Harrison did not much care for needles. Whenever he donated plasma, he would look away as the tip went into his arm.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Harrison, an Australian who died last month at 88, was one of the most prolific donors in history, extending his arm 1,173 times. He may have also been one of the most important<\/a>: Scientists used a rare antibody in his plasma to make a medication that helped protect an estimated 2.4 million babies in Australia from possible disease or death, medical experts say.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just kept going, and going, and going,\u201d his grandson Jarrod Mellowship, 32, said in an interview on Monday. \u201cHe didn\u2019t feel like he had to do it. He just wanted to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Harrison \u2014 who was affectionately known as \u201cThe Man with the Golden Arm\u201d \u2014 died in his sleep at age 88 on Feb. 17, at a nursing home about an hour\u2019s drive north of his regular donation center in Sydney, Mr. Mellowship said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n