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Britain’s NHS Exposed In Infected Blood Scandal
The real scandal: Why it took 40 years for the British public to get answers. Could the same thing happen in the United States?
“NHS and government led ‘chilling’ cover-up of infected blood scandal, inquiry finds,” The Telegraph broke the devastating news on May 20, 2024. “A five-year investigation has found that a ‘catalogue of failures’ led to the worst treatment disaster in NHS history.”
The five-year, independent investigation painted a sinister picture. The scandal and its full depth are only starting to be revealed to the British public and the world at large.
“How British patients were infected with HIV from US prisoners who donated blood for a few dollars,” explained Cara McGoogan for The Telegraph on May 20, 2024. “Inmate describes how they had sex in the line to donate plasma and used bribed peers to let them go ahead even when they were high risk.”
“The school killed by contaminated blood: Of 122 boys infected, only 30 are still alive,” reported Joe Middleton and Maryam Zakir-Hussain for The Independent on May 21, 2024.
“Students at the boarding school in Hampshire were given treatment at an on-site NHS centre,” wrote the pair. “However many pupils with the condition had been treated with plasma blood products which were infected with hepatitis and…