Now. The gift of blood. Re: 4108
June, 2005:
Canadian Red Cross apologises for distributing HIV infected blood
NYT July 11, 1990
Red Cross Faulted on Tainted-Blood Reports
Nov 28, 2017
Have we forgotten the lessons of the tainted blood scandal?
2013
Man contracts HIV via donor blood
Reminder:
Published on: April 04, 2020
FDA's Revised Blood Donation Guidance for Gay Men Still Courts Controversy
NYT July 11, 1990
Red Cross Faulted on Tainted-Blood Reports
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OK now—I am remembering the tainted blood scandal that was traced to Arkansas prisons. Big Donor for The Toon got the contract and allowed prisoners to implement the program. The prisoners got paid for each donation.
The other prisoners just pretended the blood was tested ok. That tainted blood went to several other countries, because it was already illegal to distribute prison blood in USA.
The health authorities shut it down, and Big Donor just started a new organization with different name and The TOON awarded the contract to them again.
Books were written. Canadian Investigators came to Washington DC during his stint in office, and the press simply did not cover it. But the Toronto Sun did.