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"sorry, that's not true, ..."

I'm not disputing that there is a legitimate scandal regarding the donation of contaminated blood from Arkansas prisoners in the 1980's. What I was pointing out is that *this particular* protester ("...who was infected with HIV and Hepatitis C ... in the 1970's") can't definitively blame Bill Clinton's negligence for his infections because (1) HIV and HCV viruses weren't identified at that time and - since you brought it up - (2) screens for HBV did not eliminate HIV and HCV from donated blood. There are many HIV-infected transfusion recipients who were infected in the early 1980's *despite* receiving HBV-screened blood.

>> 2) screens for HBV did not eliminate HIV and HCV from donated blood.

No, of course not. But the docs were learning. One thing they found was that testing for Hep A and B was highly predictive for the new "non-A, non-B" strain and for HIV. Had this been known sooner, and had anyone been able to overcome the lethargy of public health officials, this research could have helped screen donors. It was already well known that prison populations were heavy risks for many diseases, but this info was ignored by the Clintons and their friends in the tainted blood business. To them, the prison farm was just an ultra-cheap source of blood plasma. That was how they spread blood-borne viral diseases all over the world.