How Mexicans help satisfy British demand for blood plasma

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A growing source of the UK’s blood plasma is from Mexicans crossing the border into the US and donating at high frequencies, which some experts fear could risk their health

“The first time I went, I wanted to cry,” said Lucía, a mother of three, describing how her economic situation would compel her to do the journey from her home in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez to line up outside a blood plasma donation center in El Paso, Texas.

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