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KC blood donations will help Puerto Rico

By Alan Bavley

abavley@kcstar.com
Residents are blanketed in a cloud of permethrin as a team from the Puerto Rico department of health sprays the insecticide the neighborhood of Cupey, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Residents are blanketed in a cloud of permethrin as a team from the Puerto Rico department of health sprays the insecticide the neighborhood of Cupey, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Allison Shelley The Washington Post

Puerto Rico is now receiving donated blood for transfusions from the U.S. mainland because its own donor blood is considered compromised.

The Community Blood Center in Kansas City has joined an appeal by blood collection centers nationwide for donors to help supply Puerto Rico. Donor information can be found at www.savealifenow.org/blood or by calling the Community Blood Center at 877-468-6844.

Puerto Rico has recorded 159 Zika cases.

Alan Bavley, abavley@kcstar.com

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