Blood Safety (HCV)

Tainted Blood Infected Thousands in Britain with Hepatitis C

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, December 13th, 1999

A report in the November 21, 1999, issue of the British newspaper, The Observer, accused successive British governments of failing to prevent hepatitis C-tainted blood products from being used during the 1970s and 1980s.

As a result of "a series of blunders by Britain's health department," noted the Agence France-Presse news agency, thousands of people became infected with hepatitis C virus.

The Observer reported it had discovered the errors in secret civil service documents the newspaper had obtained.

The newspaper also said that 110 hemophiliac patients, who had been given the blood-clotting product, Factor VIII, had died of...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1999-12-13)

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