Contaminated blood scandal: Children used as 'experimental animals' in clinical trials

Shocking evidence exposes England's health system at its worst as it shows that thousands of patients and young children were unknowingly infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being transfused with contaminated blood between 1970 and 1991. According to British media and the BBC, this is the biggest tragedy in the history of the National Health System, NHS. Contaminated products imported from the US in the 1970s and 1980s led to the transmission of the viruses, and it is estimated that more than 4,800 people have been infected with the hepatitis C virus or HIV, and about 2,400 people have died. A BBC report says that dozens of documents and witness statements led the subsequent investigation to conclude that the clinical trials involved many children with blood clotting disorders, even though their families had not consented to their participation. The majority of the children involved are now dead. The BBC sheds light on a secret world of unsafe clinics […]
Source: News Beast

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