Australian medical officials said the railway clerk helped save 2.4 million babies by donating the rare antibodies in his blood every two weeks for over 60 years.

An Australian man credited with saving 2.4 million babies through his record-breaking blood plasma donations over six decades ...

James Christopher Harrison was born on Dec. 27, 1936, in Junee, a small town in New South Wales, to Peggy and Reginald Harrison. After he recovered from lung surgery, he met his future wife ...

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

James Harrison's rare blood, which he donated over a thousand times, is estimated to have saved the lives of over 2 million ...

In this May, 2011, photo provided by Australian Red Cross Lifeblood donor James Harrison, credited with saving 2.4 million babies through his record-breaking blood plasma donations over decades ...

He was 88. James Harrison, a retired state railway department clerk, died in a nursing home on the central coast of New South Wales state on Feb. 17, according to his grandson, Jarrod Mellowship.

A rare antibody in the blood of the Australian railway clerk was used to create 3 million doses of an injection needed to protect newborns and prevent stillbirths.

James Harrison, a prolific Australian blood donor famed for having saved the lives of more than two million babies, has died at age 88. Harrison, whose plasma contained a “rare and precious ...

He was 88. James Harrison, a retired state railway department clerk, died in a nursing home on the central coast of New South Wales state on Feb. 17, according to his grandson, Jarrod Mellowship.