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Gigi Felix
Coverage of Gigi Felix in the Nexus archive.
- South Florida teen urgently needs rare, lifesaving blood match as she battles painful disease
An 18-year-old South Florida teen with sickle cell disease urgently needs 50 units of rare O-negative blood from African American donors to proceed with a lifesaving bone marrow transplant. Her brother is a perfect marrow match, but multiple prior transfusions have made finding compatible blood challenging, requiring urgent donations.