Tainted Blood Leads to Charges in Canada

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FOREIGN DESK | November 21, 2002, Thursday
Tainted Blood Leads to Charges in Canada

( AP ) 351 words
Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 14, Column 1

LEAD 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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