Can A Paper Cut Be Deadly?

Scientific Minds Want To Know

A person with normal clotting ability would have to lose nearly 40% of his blood immediately to die of blood loss. The arteries with this bloodletting potential are buried under too much flesh to be nicked by even the heaviest manila cardstock.

A stationery slice could turn deadly, however, for the 12,600 people in the U.S. with severe hemophilia and the 200 Americans with a disorder called Glanzmann's thrombasthenia.