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  • Calls for inquiry into NZ blood system

    05/11/2004 5:42:11 AM PDT · by T'wit · 23 replies · 250+ views
    Yahoo News, Australia and New Zealand ^ | May 10,2004 | Haemophilia Society of New Zealand
    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...