FOREIGN DESK
| November 21,
2002, Thursday
Tainted Blood Leads to Charges in Canada
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Final, Section A, Page 14, Column 1
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PARAGRAPH - The
police filed charges today in what is considered one of Canada's
worst public health disasters, a tainted blood scandal that infected
thousands of people with H.I.V. and hepatitis C.
The Canadian Red Cross, four doctors and a pharmaceutical company
in the United States were all charged after a five-year
investigation by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police task force. About
1,200 people were infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS,
and thousands more contracted hepatitis C after receiving tainted
blood and blood products in the 1970's and 1980's, including some
that may have been donated by prison inmates in the United States.
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