How to mail human blood

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Juliet Lapidos at Slate tells you. Now that you know, please don't send it to me.

Image: International Air Transport Association guidance document on infectious substances (pdf)

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Heh. I'm a forensic toxicologist and we get blood samples every day in the mail. I wish they were packed as well as the diagram!