A new blood group has been identified in India, which is also the rarest in the world record.  An 65-year-old Gujarati man who suffers from heart disease was found to have the rare blood type EMM negative, which cannot be classified into the four other blood types (A, B, O, or AB).

The human body contains 42 different types of blood systems, including A, B, O, Rh, and Duffy. In general, there are four different blood group types. EMM is also present in high amounts in 375 different types of antigens.

Only 10 of such people, who are distinct from typical humans because they lack the EMM high-frequency antigen in their blood, are known to exist. People with these extremely rare blood types are unable to both donate and receive blood from others.

Only 9 persons in the entire globe have the rarest blood type as of today, but a 65-year-old man from Rajkot, Gujarat, has been found to have it. The 65-year-old patient, who was receiving care in Ahmedabad after having a heart attack, needed blood for heart surgery, said Mr Sanmukh Joshi, a doctor at Samarpan Blood Donation Center in Surat. However, the samples were only delivered to the Surat blood donation centre when his blood type could not be identified at the Prathama Laboratory in Ahmedabad.

After analysis, it was determined that the sample did not belong to any particular group, and the elderly man's blood samples, along with those of his relatives, were sent to America for testing.

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