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   On Sat, 08 Jun 2024 07:34:55 -0400, Infected Homosexual Blood...KILLS !   
   wrote:   
      
   > 1. Overview and Recommendations   
   >   
   > Summary Overview Lessons to be Learned Recommendations List of Chapters   
   >   
   > 1.1 Summary Patients have received blood or blood products from the NHS   
   > since it began in 1948. Many of those treated with them, particularly   
   > between 1970 and 1998, died or suffered miserably,   
   > and many continue to suffer. This was not as a direct result of the   
   > underlying condition or illness that took them to the NHS in the first   
   > place, but as a result of the treatment itself.   
   >   
   > This would be catastrophic enough if they were the only victims. But the   
   > treatment has caused others to suffer too – partners, family, children,   
   > friends – some by being themselves infected, some by having to watch   
   > loved ones die, some by having to give their lives to caring; and almost   
   > every one of them, infected and affected, suffering in almost every   
   > aspect of their lives.   
   >   
   > I have to report a catalogue of failures which caused this to happen.   
   > Each on its own is serious. Taken together they are a calamity. Lord   
   > Winston famously called these events “the worst treatment disaster in   
   > the history of the NHS”. I have to report that it could largely,   
   > though not entirely, have been avoided. And I have to report that it   
   > should have been.   
   >   
   > I have also to report systemic, collective and individual failures to   
   > deal ethically, appropriately,   
   > and quickly, with the risk of infections being transmitted in blood,   
   > with the infections when the risk materialised, and with the   
   > consequences for thousands of families.   
   >   
   > There were around 4,000 to 6,000 people with bleeding disorders in the   
   > UK at any one time.   
   > Around 1,250 were infected with HIV. The best estimate is that this   
   > included 380 children.   
   > Almost all infected with HIV were also infected with Hepatitis C and   
   > some with Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D as well. Three quarters of these   
   > 1,250 adults and children have died. A larger number still (between   
   > 2,400 and 5,000 people with bleeding disorders) who were not infected by   
   > HIV received blood products infected with one or more hepatitis viruses,   
   > and developed chronic Hepatitis C.   
   >   
   > People who were infected by transfusions, rather than by blood products,   
   > were infected in even greater numbers. Between 80 and 100 were infected   
   > with HIV after a blood transfusion.   
   > Approximately 26,800 were infected with Hepatitis C after a blood   
   > transfusion, often linked with childbirth or surgery, but also from   
   > transfusions to treat thalassemia, sickle disease,   
   > or leukaemia, or tissue transfer. It has not been possible to estimate   
   > the number of people infected with chronic Hepatitis B due to limited   
   > data.   
   >   
   > A significant number of people who received blood products and some who   
   > received blood transfusions have since been told that they are at an   
   > increased risk of vCJD, and should alert their medical practitioner or   
   > dentist prior to treatment. This in turn has compromised their access to   
   > that treatment.   
   >   
   > The scale of what happened is horrifying. The most accurate estimate is   
   > that more than 3,000 deaths are attributable to infected blood, blood   
   > products and tissue.   
   >   
   > https://www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/sites/default/files/Volume_1.pdf   
      
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