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The State of Virginia received 34,620 milliliters of the blood frac" tion gamma globulin without charge from the American Red Cross in the last fiscal year, Dr. Mack I. Shanholtz, State Health Commissioner reported _ today. 17,200 milliliters were received by the State Department;; of Health and 17,420 milliliters went direct ^to doctors throughout the State.
Gamma globulin is a plasma fraction that is able to modify or prevent measles. Although a com* mon disease, measles sometimes results in serious complications. Gamma globulin is also effective in preventing infectious hepatitis, a virus infection of the liver. People with a rare disease called agammaglobulinemia are highly subject toj infection. They are protected by frequent injections of the gamma globulin, which their bodies lack.
In the last fiscal year, nearly 1, 148, 300 milliliters were produced for the Red Cross by commercial laboratories from the plasma, or liquid portion, of blood that had become outdated by not
77.7%