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Within the ABO/Rhesus Group systems which are used to classify most blood types, there are several rare blood types. The rarest is AB-, with less than one percent of the world's population having this blood type. B-and O-are also very rare, each accounting for less than 5% of the world's population.
Sometimes finding compatible blood for someone with rare markers or a rare blood type is challenging. NYBCâs world-renowned team of match-makers in our Immunohematology Laboratory search for the most compatible blood for a patient in need. In fact, NYBC has the largest inventory of rare blood types in the U.S. Almost every day, we receive a call from a hospital trying to locate a rare blood type for a patient. NYBC can quickly retrieve units of rare blood because we classify these units as either Code 99 or Code 96.