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...Contaminated blood left tens of thousands of people, many suffering from the rare blood condition haemophilia, infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s....
...Some of the thousands of people who were infected and bereaved spouses have received £100,000 in interim payments, totalling about £440mn....
...Infected individuals and bereaved partners have so far each received an interim payment of £100,000, leading to payouts of about £400mn....
...If doctors had failed to take action when they knew infected blood was being used, “that was remiss and that was a mistake”, Macpherson said....
...Delays to infected blood payouts | Campaigners have accused the government of attempting to delay payments to victims of the infected blood scandal to give itself “fiscal wriggle room” for Budget tax cuts...
...Covid sufferers’ results were not compared with their own past scores but with those of people who had never been infected....
...of the infected blood scandal in his spring Budget....
...In the 1970s and 1980s, tens of thousands of Britons were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after receiving tainted blood transfusions from the NHS....
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...A further 26,800 became seriously ill, while 2,400-5,000 people were infected with hepatitis C....
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...Tens of thousands of people, many suffering from haemophilia, a condition that affects the blood’s ability to clot, were infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s after receiving tainted blood...
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...The most detailed study of haemophilia treatments for the UK as a whole is the 2022 infected blood inquiry....
...“As we know from the regular emergence of ASF in new areas across Europe . . . it will only take one incident of a piece of infected meat reaching a pig to bring the entire pig industry to its knees,” said...
...The appalling scandal of infected blood, in which up to 30,000 people contracted HIV or hepatitis C after receiving contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s, is a dreadful example of governments...
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...The government has also been accused of dragging its feet over that scandal — in which tens of thousands of people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through tainted blood transfusions — but is expected...
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