Contaminated Blood Scandal
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One of the most horrifying aspects of the entire scandal is that it has remained an almost hidden issue and the general public don’t realise the full scale of injustice
Contaminated Blood Has Killed Thousands – But Behind Each Scandalous Death Is A Unique Story Of Loss
This is a story of medical negligence, government cover-ups and big pharma greed on the scale of the thalidomide scandal, yet many have never heard of it. How? Why?
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“Hundreds will die before this inquiry ends, hundreds of people will go to their graves with no sense of justice.”The contaminated blood scandal is the biggest disaster in NHS history, in which thousands of Brits were infected with HIV, hepatitis C and other deadly blood borne diseases. HuffPost spoke with the victims as the long awaited inquiry opened.
We still think of AIDS as being a sexually transmitted disease, but approximately 1,000 haemophilia patients in the UK who were infected with HIV have died since the 1980s
It is investigating how thousands became infected with HIV and hepatitis C from NHS blood.
About Contaminated Blood Scandal
The contaminated blood scandal is a health disaster in which thousands of people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C (hep C) viruses through treatment with contaminated blood or blood products. The deadly treatments were used by the NHS in the 1970s and 1980s and as many as 3,000 people have since lost their lives. Many of those infected were haemophiliacs. The disaster is now the subject of a public inquiry in the UK.