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N.O. blood bank caught in federal shutdown crisis

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The partial federal government shutdown is causing problems for a New Orleans blood bank that serves more than two dozen hospitals in Louisiana and southern Mississippi. The Blood Center had to cancel two recent drives at or near federal government agencies because employees who normally would have donated blood have been furlough…

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