• sturlabragason@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    “Britain’s National Health Service allowed blood tainted with HIV and Hepatitis to be used on patients without their knowledge, leading to 3,000 deaths and more than 30,000 infections, according to the 2,527-page final report by Justice Brian Justice Langstaff, a former judge on the High Court of England and Wales.”

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      7 months ago

      This happened between 1970 and 1991. If I’m not mistaken, those were the years of the AIDS scare, right? How did this go under the radar in times of such paranoia?

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    7 months ago

    Canada had the same issue. Unfortunately it killed a friend of mine, a father of two young children.