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The UK did not import whole blood [12] from abroad, but it did import large quantities of factor VIII given to those infected, as described in the documentary Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal. The UK imported these products because it did not produce enough of its own, and efforts to achieve self-sufficiency were inadequately funded.
The Infected Blood Inquiry is looking into how thousands of people were infected with contaminated blood during the 1970s and 1980s. UK Government compensation for infected blood victims ...
Out of these 5 cases, only 1 of the victims was a Haemophiliac. The 1 haemophilia case was a Hepatitis C infection that occurred in the 1960s, before Factor concentrates were in use, meaning that the case did not relate to the relevant period which is regarded at the mid-1970s–1980s. [16] None of these examined cases involved HIV infection. [17]
The final report of the U.K.'s infected blood inquiry was published on Monday, nearly six years after it began looking into how tens of thousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis from ...
A and Others v National Blood Authority and Another, also known as the Hepatitis C Litigation, [3] was a landmark product liability case of 2001 primarily concerning blood transfusions [1] but also blood products or transplanted organs, [4] all of which were infected with hepatitis C, where liability was established under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and the Product Liability Directive (85 ...
Victims of the U.K.'s infected blood scandal, in which tens of thousands of people were infected by contaminated blood or blood products provided by the public health service, will start receiving ...
British authorities and the country's public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth ...
Of the infected anti-D recipients, 103 went on to donate blood to the BTSB following their infection. These donors made total of 504 donations which resulted in an estimated 606 potentially infectious labile blood components (Another donor was identified who had been indirectly infected by an anti-D recipient and whose donations went into 8 ...