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Banned Blood Donors Can Give Again as Mad Cow Disease Worries Wane
Hundreds of thousands of former donors can once again roll up their sleeves, perhaps bolstering U.S. blood collections, which lagged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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New Book Traces Vermont Woman's Healing After Horrific Explosion
A Vermont woman who was nearly killed in an explosion during a family vacation in the Bahamas is out with a brand-new memoir — which is launching next week with a party in Rutland. The book, titled “Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation,” traces the long journey of Stefanie Schaffer and all she has learned through facing adversity…
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New Book Traces Vermont Woman's Healing After Horrific Explosion
Stefanie Schaffer is releasing a memoir titled “Without Any Warning: Casualties of a Caribbean Vacation.”
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Red Cross, Urging Donations, Declares Its First-Ever ‘Blood Crisis'
The American Red Cross on Tuesday said it declared its first-ever “blood crisis” as it faces the worst national blood shortage in about a decade.
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Survivor of Boat Explosion Thanks Vt. Blood Donors: ‘Anyone at Any Time Can Need It'
Vermont’s largest annual blood drive, the Gift of Life Marathon in Rutland County, kicked off Tuesday — with a visit from a special guest who knows how vital blood donations are. “Anyone at any time can need it,” Stefanie Schaffer, 25, said of blood used for transfusions. “And it’s constantly needed.” Schaffer lost her legs in an accidental explosion on…
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Woman Who Survived Boat Explosion Helps Advocate for Blood Donations
The largest annual blood drive in Vermont kicked off Tuesday.
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Boat Explosion Survivor Urges Support of Vt. Blood Drive Amid Supply ‘Emergency'
A woman who survived an explosion that made international headlines is now issuing an impassioned plea to people everywhere to donate blood — a gift she said saved her life. “All that I could do was desperately fight to stay alive,” Stefanie Schaffer said of the moments following an explosion that nearly killed her. Schaffer is the Vermont dancer who…
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Boat Blast Survivor Urges Support of Vt. Blood Drive
A woman who survived an explosion in the Bahamas is asking people everywhere to help improve and even save lives like hers.
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Full Speech: Boat Explosion Survivor Talks Road to Recovery
Vermont native Stefanie Schaffer, 25, spoke Tuesday at Rutland’s Paramount Theatre about her long recovery after losing her legs — and nearly her life — in a boat explosion in the Bahamas in October 2018. Schaffer spoke of how blood donations kept her alive and urged people to give blood to help alleviate what American Red Cross has described a...