Posted on 05/11/2006 6:38:06 AM PDT by Plasmaman
Haemophiliac joins Clinton demo
Protesters want a public inquiry into the use of infected blood products A man from Sussex who was infected with HIV and Hepatitis C while being treated for a blood disorder is taking part in a protest in front of Bill Clinton. The man, a haemophiliac, was treated with infected clotting agents in the 1970s when many of the blood products used came from the United States.
The former President was governor of Arkansas, where haemophiliacs say blood was collected from high-risk prisoners.
The Department of Health says the UK government acted in good faith.
The Sussex protester, who does not want to be named, received treatment with Factor 8 which was intended to save his life.
But he was diagnosed with HIV and Hepatitis C at 14.
Donors screened
"I needed Factor 8 because I was in pain, but in being given that treatment I was given a death sentence," he said.
He travelled to Glasgow, where Mr Clinton is addressing 800 business people, to join Wednesday's protest.
Today, blood donors are screened so that blood is no longer taken from high-risk groups such as drug users.
But the affected haemophiliacs are calling for a public inquiry into how they came to be infected.
The Department of Health said: "We are aware that during the 1970s and 80s blood products were sourced from prisoners in the US.
"An ex-gratia payment is available to every person who was alive on 29 August 2003 and whose Hepatitis C infection was due to NHS treatment with blood or blood products received before September 1991.
"The Government of the day acted in good faith, relying on the technology available at that time, and therefore we do not feel a public inquiry would provide any real benefit to those affected."
I'm amazed the BBC actually even covered this.
Its a bad penny story that will follow Clinton for the rest of his days....
No. Your death sentence was just moved up.
Everybody dies, kiddo. Take the philosophical train out. There's peace on it.
dont mind dying when God says its time but I hate having to catch the early train just because somebody wanted to make a few bucks selling tainted blood from prisoners
"The Government of the day acted in good faith, relying on the technology available at that time, and therefore we do not feel a public inquiry would provide any real benefit to those affected."
The govt of Arkansas didn't act in good faith. They continued to ship tainted blood after it was well known that it was dangerous to do so. There won't be an inquiry because Bill Clinton and some of his cronies would wind up in prison.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47128
As WorldNetDaily reported, Bill Clinton was at the center of a scandal in Arkansas in the 1980s involving the sale of AIDS-tainted blood to Canada, which was distributed through the Red Cross.
As governor of Arkansas, Clinton awarded a contract to Health Management Associates to provide medical care to the state's prisoners. The president of the company was a long-time friend and political ally of Clinton and later was appointed by him to the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. Later, he was among the senior members of Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial re-election team.
The death toll from the tainted blood has grown since the figure of 3,000 was calculated in 1997, but recent estimates are not available, the Associated Press reported.
Duplessis said the organization accepted responsibility for "having distributed harmful products for those that rely on us for their health."
will Clinton ever have to be held to account? well the parties not over until the fat lady in the velvet dress sings!
For a history of HIV:
http://www.aegis.com/topics/timeline/
You never hear anything about it from the MSM!
Clinton and his Arkansas buddies could still get their desserts.
There are enough victims in Canada for a class action suit.
Wonder why the victims - or their families - have not taken action.
Add up all the Clinton "bad penny" stories and you've got a twenty-dollar bill.
I'd forgotten about the tainted blood from Arkansas. Thanks for posting this.
I'm a Haemophobic.
Stock reply from the Clinton stronghold - had this been a Republican Governor...............
Michael Sullivan, "Blood Trail"
Tainted-blood sleuth firebombed
Intimidation campaign suspected as Arkansas clinic razed, Montreal office ransacked...
(Clinton Involved In Arkansas 'Blood Scandal') book after book etc. etc. etc.....
The Clintons are not nice people; never were and never will be. If it weren't for the MSM; PSSSSSST Mag.; Hollywood etc. cramming the name down our throats hourly, these two trashy people would have disappeared long ago - Propaganda 101!
America doesn't want them.
Clinton is guilty, at least, of reckless endangerment.
By 1982 the CDC had pointed out the connection between HIV and Factor 8
1982 * CDC (USA) links the new disease to blood."Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Possible Transfusion-Associated Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) -- California
Update on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among Patients with Hemophilia A, MMWR Weekly, December 10, 1982 / 31(48);644-6,652 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Randal Morgan, who was deputy director of the department of corrections from 1981 to 1996, said: " It would be ludicrous that Bill Clinton did not know that the plasma program was experiencing problems.". . .
DENNIS BUECKERT, CANADIAN PRESS, NOV 21, 2003 - Canada continued to receive blood from an Arkansas prison in the 1980s long after serious safety problems at the facility had been exposed, new evidence indicates. Material gathered by Arkansas filmmaker Kelly Duda shows that, after evidence of contamination emerged in 1983, the prison blood centre simply set up a new subsidiary, with a different name, and continued shipping blood to Canada.
Even if HIV were not transmitted through prisoners' blook, Hepatitis was.
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