An Australian man named James Harrison donated his blood for 60 years. According to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, it is showed that he saved more than 2.4 million Australian babies with his blood donation. He has been donating his blood since 1954, and he retired recently. He is known as “The Man with the Golden Arm" because of donating much of his blood.

Harrison started that blood donation saved his life when he had chest surgery when he was 14. When he went to donate his blood for the first time, doctors discovered that Harrison’s blood contained the antibody that could be used to create Anti-D injections which helps an unborn baby’s to fight against rhesus disease. Rhesus disease is a disease which pregnant woman’s blood attacks on unborn baby’s blood cells. It can give brain damage or death to a baby. Rhesus disease happens when a pregnant woman has rhesus negative blood and her unborn baby has rhesus positive blood, gotten from baby’s father. However, Harrison’s blood had antibodies which could be used to develop Anti D injection.

When Harrison realized his blood has antibodies for rhesus disease, he donated his blood for more than a thousand times. Recently, he had donated his blood and retired at 81 years old. Still, most of the Anti-d injections are Australian, and they are from Harrison's arm. He donated his blood for 1,173 times, and he was in the Guinness Book of World Record in 2011 because of his 1,000 times blood donation. Harrison is considered as a national hero in Australia, and he won a lot of awards.