[adanaC]

These articles explain how major media and television were trying to alert the public in the mid 1970s to the danger of hepatitis in our blood supply, but health authorities in Ireland and Canada ignored this to save money. It shows how our governments shredded proof to cover their own hides. The ones who have paid for this tragedy are victims who were transfused. The costs have been lives. Some still survive to tell the story.

[lelio]

Here's a page about Clinton's Arkansas blood scandal in which prisioner's plasma was harvested and sold. Michael Sullivan's book _Blood Trail_ is about it.
According to this search on google there's a bunch of links (one of which mentions FR) but I can't pull up the seark.net link; the cache works though.

[T'wit]

Note also that Armour reissued a product already thought to be inferior or dangerous.

We are so used to product recalls for the slightest safety reason that we can hardly imagine the irresponsible practices of the blood trade. Yet the truth is, both government and corporate bureaucrats consistently put money before public health. Blood products are costly to make and command a huge mark-up. Therefore, the bad stuff was almost always used instead of being thrown out. In one case I recall, blood known to be contaminated and banned for Canadian use, was simply sold overseas. It spread death and disease through several countries.

[Askel5]

Thank you, adanaC.

I'd probably get banned for writing what I'm thinking so I'll leave it at that for now.

[Great Dane]

Whatever happened to free speech.

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