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National Blood Donation Week started in Nevada

National Blood Donation Week started in Nevada (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Syndicated radio personality and professor Dr. Daliah Wachs donates blood with United Blood Services Acting Donor Care Supervisor Renea Thomas at Touro University in Henderson Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, as part of National Blood Donation Week. Wachs started a blood donation day in Nevada in 2015, and has grown it into National Blood Donation Week in nearly all 50 states. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Syndicated radio personality and professor Dr. Daliah Wachs donates blood with United Blood Services Acting Donor Care Supervisor Renea Thomas at Touro University in Henderson Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, as part of National Blood Donation Week. Wachs started a blood donation day in Nevada in 2015, and has grown it into National Blood Donation Week in nearly all 50 states. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Syndicated radio personality and professor Dr. Daliah Wachs donates blood with United Blood Services Acting Donor Care Supervisor Renea Thomas at Touro University in Henderson Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, as part of National Blood Donation Week. Wachs started a blood donation day in Nevada in 2015, and has grown it into National Blood Donation Week in nearly all 50 states. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Syndicated radio personality and professor Dr. Daliah Wachs donates blood with United Blood Services Acting Donor Care Supervisor Renea Thomas at Touro University in Henderson Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, as part of National Blood Donation Week. Wachs started a blood donation day in Nevada in 2015, and has grown it into National Blood Donation Week in nearly all 50 states. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Syndicated radio personality and professor Dr. Daliah Wachs donates blood with United Blood Services Donor Care Specialist Christian Reyes at Touro University in Henderson Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, as part of National Blood Donation Week. Wachs started a blood donation day in Nevada in 2015, and has grown it into National Blood Donation Week in nearly all 50 states. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Syndicated radio personality and professor Dr. Daliah Wachs donates blood with United Blood Services Donor Care Specialist Christian Reyes at Touro University in Henderson Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, as part of National Blood Donation Week. Wachs started a blood donation day in Nevada in 2015, and has grown it into National Blood Donation Week in nearly all 50 states. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
Syndicated radio personality and professor Dr. Daliah Wachs donates blood with United Blood Services Donor Care Specialist Christian Reyes at Touro University in Henderson Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, as part of National Blood Donation Week. Wachs started a blood donation day in Nevada in 2015, and has grown it into National Blood Donation Week in nearly all 50 states. K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
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Syndicated radio personality and Touro University professor Dr. Daliah Wachs started a blood donation day in Nevada in 2015.

It has now grown to National Blood Donation Week in nearly all 50 states.

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