Posted on 05/30/2005 6:32:11 PM PDT by Clive
My understanding was that hemochromatosis is also a hereditary condition, although repeated blood transfusions can create similar symptoms.
Is this a joke?
The Red Cross; isn't that the organization that is always so concerned about the well-being of terrorists and Saddam Hussein?
As long as there are no consquences possible, taking responsbility, then apologizing, are worthless. Mere words.
Obviously there's no justice in canada either
Who was it that said Canada was Morally Superior to us mere mortals? hmmm
Interesting. Thanks for posting and commenting.
And hillary goes on pushing Canadian Health Care while destroying our system.
Since it came from Arkansas, we can't crow.
Many of the victims were haemophiliacs who were taking Factor 8 which was made by Connaught Laboratories using batched blood including blood acquired from a Montreal blood broker who in turn got it from the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
Neither Connaught nor the Red Cross took the trouble to ascertain the meaning of "ADC" on the labels.
As a former (sorta) reporter, how could the idiots write this story and leave out that one small (?) Arkansonian detail....
Any idea what percentage it was?
I know there was no blood test for HepC until the 1990's Just an error I noticed, I don't know about the HIV part though.
An apology? Fat lot of good that does : (
This blood didn't happen to come from Arkansas, did it?
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Unbelieveable. No-one went to jail.
He had hemophilia and was receiving factor 8, the clotting agent, which the Red Cross supplied. Factor 8, being extracted from many units of donated blood, had a much greater chance of being contaminated with the HIV virus, and of course hemophiliacs were getting it regularly, increasing their exposure.
As I understand it they were getting factor 8 from a US company that was getting the blood from donors in prisons, among other places, and prisons of course were hotbeds of HIV infection with all the IV drug users in them. This error was magnified when the Red Cross did not immediately discard supplies of factor 8 when they became aware it might be contaminated with HIV.
Some, maybe many, of those who got HIV or Hep C through whole blood transfusions got it before there were effective screening procedures for HIV and Hep in donated blood. The Red Cross was slow, however, in adopting the screening procedures when they did become available.
Canada really really sucks.
And we were not condemning the whole United States for the fact that you repeatedly elected Clinton as governor and then as president.
As I understand it, there was an extremely high mortality rate among hemophiliacs during a certain time period in the 1980's before blood was routinely screened for HIV.
The statement "in the USA" should be included in the above, in addition concerns about the mortality rate being not just extremely high, but close to 100% should have been mentioned. No proof of mortality rate, just one of those, "I read it somewhere".
I remember back in the 80's or late 70's I think, I read in a magazine where a person that worked for a blood bank had AIDS. This person would taint the blood that he would send out with the AIDS virus. When caught and ask why he did it, his answer was 'that not enough was being done to find a cure for AIDS and that he thought that if enough people were infected with the AIDS virus that a cure would be found more quickly'.
Of course you can see that this person didn't care how many people he killed just as long as he thought that a cure would be found before he died, which was caused by his own actions of being a homosexual.
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