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    Patient Bleeds Green Blood
    Doctors in Vancouver were stunned when the man they were operating on turned out to have dark green blood.

    No, the man was not following in the steps of "Star Trek's" fictional Mr. Spock -- a Vulcan with green blood, BBC News reported. The 42-year-old patient's unusually colored blood was caused by a migraine medication called sumatriptan, BBC News reported Friday.

    The medication caused a rare condition where sulfur is incorporated into the oxygen-carrying red blood cells, which turns the blood green, said Dr. Alana Flexman of St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver.

    The man's blood returned to normal after the amount of the medication was reduced. The man had needed immediate surgery because he had developed a dangerous condition in his legs after falling asleep in a sitting position. The surgery was successful.

    Mr. Spock, of the starship Enterprise, had green blood because the oxidizing agent in Vulcan blood is copper, not iron, as it is in humans.

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    Default Re: Patient Bleeds Green Blood

    You sure he wasn't a lizard alien like from AN? lol
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    Default Re: Patient Bleeds Green Blood

    Shhh... We don't want to cause mass panic!


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