The woman whose blood made an entire ER collapse
On February 19, 1994, Gloria Ramirez arrived at Riverside General Hospital in California with late-stage cervical cancer and severe heart palpitations. Within minutes of staff drawing her blood, people started dropping. A nurse noticed an ammonia smell from the blood tube and fainted. A medical resident saw yellow-brown cryst…
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