Infected blood scandal is worst disaster in NHS history - one person dies every four days
18-05-2024 22:03 via mirror.co.uk

Infected blood scandal is worst disaster in NHS history - one person dies every four days

In the 1970s and 1980s tens of thousands of Brits were transfused with contaminated blood bought from the US, some being donated by prisoners infected with hepatitis C - one in ten of those affected did not survive
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