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Calls for inquiry into NZ blood system
Yahoo News, Australia and New Zealand ^ | May 10,2004 | Haemophilia Society of New Zealand

Posted on 05/11/2004 5:42:11 AM PDT by T'wit

The Haemophilia Foundation of New Zealand has renewed calls for a public inquiry into the past management of the national blood system.

The renewed call came after it was revealed three New Zealanders are among 1500 plaintiffs world-wide in a class action against major American pharmaceutical companies over the use of blood products taken from high-risk populations such as prison inmates, intravenous drug-users and urban homosexual communities, claiming they were exposed to HIV and hepatitis C.

The haemophiliacs received the potentially contaminated imported blood-clotting agents in the 1970s and 1980s.

Foundation president Mike Carnahan said it was high time the public was informed by a full public inquiry of the national blood system from the mid-1970s to the 1990s, when haemophiliacs were exposed to a "Russian roulette" rate of risk of exposure to potentially contaminated products.

"It is high time to put the issue on the table. It's taken 20 years for this information to surface. What else is waiting to come out and at what cost to our community?"

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bloodtrail; clinton; cumminsprisonfarm; hepatitisc; taintedblood
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To: BigM
You know what could really goose the effort? If Mike Galster gets his BLOOD TRAIL movie out. Last I talked to him, he had a deal for it, so I hope it's turning into reality! I'm going to be the first person standing in line on opening night :-)

Heck, you and I ought to get jobs as consultants for it.

21 posted on 05/12/2004 6:03:44 AM PDT by T'wit ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society" - Theodore Roosevelt)
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Galster bump!
22 posted on 05/12/2004 6:51:50 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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Bumps to you, Maddie!
23 posted on 05/12/2004 9:50:03 PM PDT by T'wit ("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society" - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: T'wit
Please FReepmail me with your mailing address so I know where to mail those CDs you loaned me a while back :-).
24 posted on 05/13/2004 10:27:55 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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