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Old 10-07-2009, 12:23 PM
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People donate plasma either to make money or be altruistic.

Plasma is used to treat disease and burns, etc:
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Human plasma is an essential starting material for therapies that treat patients with serious rare, chronic, and often genetic diseases such as hemophilia, primary immunodeficiency, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and autoimmune and neurological disorders. Plasma is also used to treat individuals during major surgery, who have sustained burns or are suffering from trauma.
http://www.donatingplasma.org/needfo...a/default.aspx
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