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In France there was a huge scandal about contaminated blood products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_products https://en.wikipedi
by BiteCode_dev 2y ago
In France there was a huge scandal about contaminated blood products:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood...
Despite abundance of evidence, journalists revealing everything, and myriads of high-ups involved, only 2 people have been sentenced, for 4 and 2 years of prison.
To give 2,000 people HIV.
What justice do you hope for?
- washadjeffmad 2y agoMy grandmother contracted Hep C from a contaminated blood transfusion in the 1960s. When the cure was approved within the past decade, she was one of the first given the treatment. I don't know that this was the common practice or even intentional, and giving a new therapy to an elderly person does amount to medical QA, but despite half a century elapsing, it worked.