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Fun Facts

• Doctors really do carry organs to be transplanted in picnic coolers.

• There are over 2,000 kids under 18 on the waiting list for organ transplants.

• The youngest child to ever get a heart transplant was three hours old.

• Kidneys from an infant can be transplanted to an adult -- they grow to fit!

• The oldest kidney to be transplanted is now 95 years old. The donor was 65.

• By the year 2010, one out of every 20 people will need a transplant.

 

 
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