UK’s infected blood scandal could and should have been avoided, inquiry finds

https://www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/reports/inquiry-report the full report can be found here

Not sure if people realise how world wide this scandal was.

Look at some of the Japanese related articles.

1995

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0596-498.pdf

2011

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/05/18/national/last-plaintiff-in-hiv-tainted-blood-scandal-settles/

2008 article

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608604699/fulltext

“In Japan fibrinogen was manufactured by Green Cross, whose unheated blood products infected as many as 2000 haemophiliacs with HIV in the 1980s. Green Cross had form well before the HIV scandal. One of its founders, Masaji Kitano, was part of Unit 731, a secret branch of the Japanese imperial army that did lethal experiments on mainly civilians before and during the war as part of Japan’s biological and chemical weapons programme. After Japan’s defeat, the unit’s leaders passed their findings to the US in exchange for immunity to prosecution for war crimes. Green Cross, Japan’s first commercial blood bank, was renamed Welfide in 1998 and became part of Mitsubishi Pharma in 2001.”

Then you get the US prisons selling infected blood.

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/arkansas-prison-blood-scandal-3732/

“The Arkansas prison blood scandal resulted from the state’s selling plasma extracted from prisoners at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC). Corruption among the administrators of the prison blood program and poor supervision resulted in disease-tainted blood, often carrying hepatitis or HIV, knowingly being shipped to blood brokers, who in turn shipped it to Canada, Europe, and Asia. Revelation of the misdeeds and the healthcare crisis it created in Canada nearly brought down the Liberal Party government in 1997. In 1994, Arkansas became the last state to stop selling plasma extracted from prisoners.”

If there is any justice in this world this will be final nail in the coffin of Kenneth Clarke’s reputation as one of the ‘good tories’. He’s a fucking monster.

A great summary here https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n22/florence-sutcliffe-braithwaite/we-ve-messed-up-boys

People who I know have had their lives utterly ruined by this.

This kinda bs gives legitimacy to all the communities that are anti vaccine, anti blood transfusions due to religion, anti medicine, anti science etc because they think everything is a cover up and nothing can be trusted.