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Published online 15 November 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021111-11
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Newborns might help malaria kids
Blood from umbilical cords could treat anaemia caused by tropical disease.
Transfusions of blood from newborns' umbilical cords could save children who are acutely ill with malaria in parts of the world that lack a routine supply of donated blood.
Untreated, malaria destroys the red blood cells that shunt oxygen around the body.
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