"It wasn't one big heroic act. It was just a lifetime of being there and doing these small acts of good bit by bit." When he was just 14, James Harrison of New South Wales, Australia, needed to undergo lung surgery that required a series of life-saving blood transfusions.

James Harrison, an Australian man credited with saving 2.4 million babies through his record-breaking blood plasma donations over six decades, has died, his family says. He was 88.

A man from Australia, James Harrison, who saved a lot of lives with his rare antibody in his blood, passed away at the age of 88. Legit.ng compiled facts about him