If you’re a woman, pregnancy can have huge impacts on your life, but it also changes your body in many ways, some simple, others so complex, we’re still making new discoveries even in this age when doctors already seem to know it all.

One of these new revelations is the possibility that the blood of a woman who was once pregnant might be more likely to kill a man if he were to get a transfusion of her blood.

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