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From the 1970s to the early 1990s, tens of thousands of people were infected with hepatitis C and HIV as a result of receiving infected blood or infected clotting factor products in the United Kingdom. [2] Many of the products were imported from the United States, and distributed to patients by the National Health Service.
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Contaminated hemophilia blood products were a serious public health problem in the late 1970s up to 1985. [citation needed] Hemophilia A causes a deficiency in Factor VIII, a protein required for blood clotting. Factor VIII injections are a common treatment to prevent or stop bleeding in people with hemophilia A. [1]
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 ...
This is a list of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks; Legionnaire's is a potentially fatal infectious disease caused by gram negative, aerobic bacteria belonging to the genus Legionella. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first reported outbreak was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1976 during a Legionnaires Convention at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel .
There were 52 confirmed deaths, including 19 stillbirths and 10 infant deaths. [ 2 ] [ 21 ] At the time, it was the deadliest foodborne illness outbreak in the United States, measured by the number of deaths, since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had begun tracking outbreaks in the 1970s. [ 2 ]
Deaths from blood cancer (6 C, 23 P) M. Deaths from mastocytosis (2 P) S. Deaths from sepsis (7 C, 171 P) T. Deaths from thrombosis (3 C, 63 P) Deaths from thrombotic ...
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