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Canadian Hemophiliacs File Suit Over Tainted Blood

Published in Blood Weekly, March 23rd, 1998

Some 22,000 hemophiliacs who were infected with hepatitis C through blood transfusions brought a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit against Canada's federal and provincial governments and the Red Cross.

Toronto lawyer David Harvey, who represented the hemophiliacs, said the suit seeks C$3.8 billion ($2.7 billion) in damages and he claimed it was the largest tainted-blood class action lawsuit in the world.

"They (the Canadian government) have forced our hand and forced us into the courts which is a place we all agree we don't want to be," Harvey said.

Hepatitis C is a degenerative liver disease that can lie dormant for years...

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