Government knew of HIV risk from imported blood
Sarah HallFriday May 25, 2007
The Guardian
The government's advisers on medicine knew that patients were at risk of contracting Aids from imported blood products as early as 1983, but ruled against a ban because of fears it would cause a shortage of supply.
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Minutes obtained by the Guardian of a meeting held on July 13 1983 reveal that the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) knew that "patients who repeatedly receive blood clotting-factor concentrates appear to be at risk" of Aids.
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Nearly 5,000 people were infected with hepatitis C; of these 1,200 contracted HIV after receiving the imported plasma product in the late 70s and early to mid-80s.
A total of 1,757 patients have died and many are terminally ill following a scandal that the Labour peer Lord Winston has dubbed "the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS".
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The plasma, called Factor VIII, was made from blood from 10,000 paid donors, many of whom were prisoners or vagrants, who, by 1975, were known to carry a greater risk of having hepatitis C.
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Não consigo lembra-me do nome do sítio, nos Estados Unidos, que é uma especie de OPEP do sangue. Onde estão as empresas que compravam sangue a indigentes e drogados na América Latina e cujo comportamento empresarial irá despoletar esta contaminação do sangue (que chegará a Portugal via Suiça).
Pois foi, foi cá e em França e sabe-se lá mais aonde.
Cá "perderam-se" convenientemente os documentos, em França houve cabeças que rolaram no governo mas, como sempre, quem se lixou mesmo foi o mexilhão...
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