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Suffication. It displaced oxygen in the blood stream, and attaches to the red blood cell 50 times more readily than oxygen and is hard do dislodge. In advanced cases, people with CO poisoning can not be saved even when given pure oxygen to breathe because there are almost no red blood cells available for the oxygen to attach to.

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