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> In the mid-1980s, just as the Aids crisis peaked and US scientists discovered the virus that caused the disease was borne by blood, American drug companies kn

> In the mid-1980s, just as the Aids crisis peaked and US scientists discovered the virus that caused the disease was borne by blood, American drug companies knowingly sold HIV-tainted blood products in Asia. It wasn't just an American company, there were actually two companies, Bayer (German) and Baxter (American). Baxter have a history of very shady things, I'm surprised they're around. I wish the author cite the quote or more clear on that part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baxter_International#1996_Japanese_haemophiliac_HIV_lawsuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baxter_International#1996_Japa...

aldoushuxley001 8y ago
The funny thing with Bayer recently purchasing Monsanto is wondering which name elicits the least shady history
- qaq 8y ago
  Monsanto ? Bayer's medical experiments on people in concentration camps is hard to top.
  - aldoushuxley001 8y ago
    I'd tend to agree, but yet they went with Bayer. I guess Bayer's history is a little more buried while Monsanto's flagship product is currently getting sued to oblivion.
  - philwelch 8y ago
    Plus: > In 1895, the German drug company Bayer marketed diacetylmorphine as an over-the-counter drug under the trademark name Heroin.[69] It was developed chiefly as a morphine substitute for cough suppressants that did not have morphine's addictive side-effects. Morphine at the time was a popular recreational drug, and Bayer wished to find a similar but non-addictive substitute to market. However, contrary to Bayer's advertising as a "non-addictive morphine substitute," heroin would soon have one of the highest rates of addiction among its users.[70] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History
Alex3917 8y ago
Not just Asia, Canada also. Bill Clinton approved harvesting blood from HIV-infected prisoners in Arkansas and selling it to the Canadians. https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/04/arkansas-bloodsuckers-the-clintons-prisoners-and-the-blood-trade/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/04/arkansas-bloodsucker...
- trhway 8y ago
  other fun bits: "Cryosan had a shady reputation in the medical industry. It had been nabbed importing blood taken from Russian cadavers and relabeling it as though it was from Swedish volunteers." and Arkansas way of screening for HIV: "Pine Bluffs president Jimmy Lord dismissed such concerns and suggested that AIDs was not a problem in Arkansas. “If anyone got caught in a homosexual act,” Lords said, “we took them off the roster.”"

aldoushuxley001 8y ago

The funny thing with Bayer recently purchasing Monsanto is wondering which name elicits the least shady history

qaq 8y ago
Monsanto ? Bayer's medical experiments on people in concentration camps is hard to top.
- aldoushuxley001 8y ago
  I'd tend to agree, but yet they went with Bayer. I guess Bayer's history is a little more buried while Monsanto's flagship product is currently getting sued to oblivion.
- philwelch 8y ago
  Plus: > In 1895, the German drug company Bayer marketed diacetylmorphine as an over-the-counter drug under the trademark name Heroin.[69] It was developed chiefly as a morphine substitute for cough suppressants that did not have morphine's addictive side-effects. Morphine at the time was a popular recreational drug, and Bayer wished to find a similar but non-addictive substitute to market. However, contrary to Bayer's advertising as a "non-addictive morphine substitute," heroin would soon have one of the highest rates of addiction among its users.[70] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History

Alex3917 8y ago

Not just Asia, Canada also. Bill Clinton approved harvesting blood from HIV-infected prisoners in Arkansas and selling it to the Canadians. https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/04/arkansas-bloodsuckers-the-clintons-prisoners-and-the-blood-trade/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/04/arkansas-bloodsucker...

trhway 8y ago
other fun bits: "Cryosan had a shady reputation in the medical industry. It had been nabbed importing blood taken from Russian cadavers and relabeling it as though it was from Swedish volunteers." and Arkansas way of screening for HIV: "Pine Bluffs president Jimmy Lord dismissed such concerns and suggested that AIDs was not a problem in Arkansas. “If anyone got caught in a homosexual act,” Lords said, “we took them off the roster.”"