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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:26 am
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nfl team hats What is the contaminated blood scandal that killed at least 2,400 people?Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered an inquiry into the scandal that saw patients given blood infected with hepatitis C and HIV19:36, 11 JUL 2017Updated11:48, 19 JUL 2017Prime Minister Theresa May (Image: PA)
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Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered an inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal that claimed thousands of lives.
The victims included haemophiliac Peter Longstaff from Newcastle whose wife Carol Grayson gave a caution Cheap Jerseys welcome to the news. Here are the key questions surrounding the scandal.
China nba basketball uniforms What is the contaminated blood scandal? Patients with the blood clotting disorder haemophilia, a disorder that impacts the body's ability to stop bleeding, were given blood donated by HIV and hepatitis C sufferers. It happened in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
How many people were affected? According to a pressure group campaigning for compensation for those affected by the scandal, around 4,800 people were infected with Wholesale Jerseys hepatitis C and 1,200 of those were also infected with HIV.
Half of the infected have now died.
What caused the scandal? Haemophiliacs were treated with a powder to try and fight their symptoms.
But the demand grew which meant medical companies needed large supplies of blood and in the US prisoners and drug addicts were paid to donate.
china blank majestic baseball jerseys The donations were Jerseys Cheap mixed together meaning any samples containing a virus would contaminate other batches.
The biggest problem came from a clotting agent called Factor VIII.
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When did the scandal first come to light? Doctors first became aware of the hepatitis C danger in the 1970s, but it wasn't until the 1980s that the HIV problem was spotted.
Once more was understood about HIV, the UK government started demanding any products were heat treated in a bid to minimise the risk.
But it has been reported campaigners have evidence that the Department of Health suspected the imported blood products could be dangerous as early as 1983 but haemophiliacs were still given them.
But hasn't the Government already paid out compensation to the victims? The Government did pay some ex gratia payments to victims infected by HIV, on the condition they dropped any further legal claims.
They were paid around each. But the full extent of the hepatitis C danger was not known until years later.
Wasn't there an inquiry in 2007? That was an independent inquiry not an official government one.
In it, harrowing stories of the dreadful impact the scandal had on people's lives emerged. And it was revealed documents that could have shed light on who knew what and when had been destroyed.
Former solicitor general Lord Archer chaired the inquiry and described the scandal as "a horrific human tragedy".
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