Contaminated blood: What caused the NHS scandal?
The infection of up to 30,000 people with contaminated blood has been called the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history. Thousands have died.People with haemophilia and other bleeding disorders were given blood infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses, during the 1970s and 1980s.
About 5,000 people are believed to have been infected - but some estimates put the number at 30,000. Nearly 3,000 people have died.Sharon Lowry said her husband Richard was 'skin and bones' after being infected with Hepatitis C in 1991One of the first to take the stand was But much of the human blood plasma used to make it came from donors such as prison inmates and drug-users, who sold their blood.However, at the time, HIV had not been diagnosed and understanding about hepatitis was still developing.
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