Posted on 05/13/2024 1:24:28 AM PDT by RandFan
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In the early 1980s, the UK could not keep up with demand for Factor VIII, which was made by pooling - or mixing - the blood plasma of thousands of individual donors.
Instead the treatment was shipped from the US.
In the UK, blood donations have always been voluntary, but in the US, drug companies were allowed to pay cash for plasma.
High risk groups, from prisoners to drug users, had a clear financial incentive to give blood and potentially lie about their medical history.
Evidence uncovered by campaigners and seen by the ongoing public inquiry into the wider contaminated blood scandal shows that, as the risk from Aids started to become known, a series of clear warnings were sent to the UK government.
In May 1983, Dr Spence Galbraith, the director of the UK's Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, wrote to Dr Ian Field, the senior principal medical officer at the Department of Health, urging that all US blood products should be withdrawn from use until the risk of Aids was "clarified".
The letter from the British embassy in Washington - which Panorama has now seen - was also sent to Dr Field, just a month later on 28 June 1983.
In it, an embassy official describes a meeting with a representative from the US Centers for Disease Control's Aids taskforce.
The transmission of HIV in blood was discussed, he writes. Haemophiliacs were "most at risk" from the "dubious habits" of some paid American blood donors, and the mixing of thousands of those donations to make Factor VIII.
NHS patients continued to be given untreated Factor VIII imported from the US until at least 1985.
Many of those involved in decisions in the 1980s are no longer alive, including Dr Ian Field.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
The only reason we have HIPPA nonsense is because they didn’t want the faggies to be stigmatized from aids. Now they want the same faggies to be allowed to donate blood so they don’t feel stigmatized. Here’s a thought: maybe, just maybe, people don’t really want anything to do with letter people.
***the risks regarding contaminated blood in this 1983 letter ***
And the finger pointed at the Arkansas Prison System when Bill Clinton was governor of That state.
***a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court as an “evil place run by some evil men.”***
How true. I remember people who have been in the Arkansas prisons. One said he would commit suicide rather than go in again. Another did commit suicide.
I am reminded of those unmarked graves found there back in 1968 and the stir it caused.
I pray that no one I know ever has to have a blood transfusion, since they allow covid vaccinated people to give blood.
Sounds like this could be a can of worms then if US prisoners and druggies were giving the UK contaminated blood it might mean others were too.
There was a documented scandal about contaminated blood being sent to Canada from the Arkansas prison system. I recall the Clinton’s being connected.
Any time I hear ‘Arkansas’ I’m reminded of Mena Airport and the boys who were killed.
The guy who played the very first Predator, and Harry in “Harry and the Hendersons” also died from HIV after getting it in a blood transfusion.
Just so sad, is t it? Between aids and the jabs 😩
My late friend got some of that tainted blood. She had to have heart suegery while living in Arkansas...she ended up with Hep C...or B...not sure
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