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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 event is often called the Tainted Blood Scandal or Contaminated Blood Scandal. [1] It was not in the terms of reference of the inquiry to examine events in England, [2] a statutory public inquiry has never been held in England. [3] The Penrose Inquiry was set up by Scottish Government under the Inquiries Act 2005 and cost £12,123,754. [4]
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 ...
Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, a documentary about the crisis in the United States using contaminated blood from prisoners. Plasma Economy, A plasmapheresis campaign in China where they exchanged blood plasma for money and resulted in contamination. Tainted blood scandal (United Kingdom)
The report said successive U.K. governments refused to admit wrongdoing and tried to cover up the scandal, in which an estimated 3,000 people died after receiving the contaminated blood or blood ...
An estimated 3,000 people in the United Kingdom are believed to have died and many others were left with lifelong illnesses after receiving blood or blood products tainted with HIV or hepatitis in ...
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Tuesday some victims of a contaminated blood scandal would receive interim payments of 210,000 pounds ($267,000) each before a scheme to pay "comprehensive ...
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