I got caught in the tainted blood scheme. Had an op in ‘81 and then was notified by the hospital that the blood batch contained HIV. Had to have follow ups and was clear. Very nervous time in-between.
From Alamo Gal records:
The Wanderer 2/11/99 Paul Likoudis “.
On Feb. 12th - the day that the U.S. Senate is expected to wrap up its impeachment trial of William Jefferson Clinton; lawyers representing thousands of Canadian “tainted-blood” victims will hold a press conference at the National Press Club to demand a U.S. Justice Department investigation into how their clients contracted AIDS or hepatitis C.
At the same time, Canada’s national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is pleading for any information from Canadians, Americans, and Europeans which will assist it in its “full-scale criminal investigation” to determine why and how contaminated blood purchased from Arkansas prisoners was sold to Canadian blood companies after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had ordered U.S. blood companies not to purchase blood donated by prisoners because of the high risk of AIDS and hepatitis C.
For almost the entire term of Clinton’s presidency, the tainted blood issue has been a major political and health story in Canada, leading to a federally chartered investigation led by Justice Horace Krever to determine how and why the contaminated blood entered the country.
What Justice Krever discovered during his three-year investigation was that officials of Health Management Associates in Arkansas ; all Clinton cronies ; unable to unload their contaminated blood anywhere in the world, found a Montreal-based broker, Continental Pharma, to accept thousands of liters of the prisoners’ plasma.
The Washington Times brought the story to its limited national audience on Dec. 11th with an editorial by Paul Craig Roberts, who led off with this incendiary line: “If news stories trickling out of Canada are true, impeachment is too good for Bill Clinton.
Drawing and quartering would be more appropriate.” He mentioned that the Canadian police are “conducting a criminal investigation of an illegal blood collection scheme with links to then Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.
During the 1980s, `hot blood’ contaminated with hepatitis C and HIV was taken from Arkansas prisoners and sold to Canada, where the plasma ended in blood products for hemophiliacs.” Alamo Girl...
Glad you were cleared. Scary stuff.