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Infected blood SCANDAL: UK Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials; "most infected with hepatitis C and HIV"
BBC ^ | April 18 | BBC

Posted on 04/18/2024 2:20:27 PM PDT by RandFan

The true scale of the number of medical trials using infected blood products on children in the 1970s and 80s has been revealed by documents seen by BBC News.

They reveal a secret world of unsafe clinical testing involving children in the UK, as doctors placed research goals ahead of patients' needs.

They continued for more than 15 years, involved hundreds of people, and infected most with hepatitis C and HIV.

One surviving patient told the BBC he was treated like a "guinea pig".

The trials involved children with blood clotting disorders, when families had often not consented to them taking part. The majority of the children who enrolled are now dead.

Documents also show that doctors in haemophilia centres across the country used blood products, even though they were widely known as likely to be contaminated.

A shortage of blood products in the UK in the 1970s and 80s meant they were imported from the US. High-risk donors such as prisoners and drug addicts provided the plasma for the treatments that were infected with potentially fatal viruses including hepatitis C - which attacks the liver resulting in cirrhosis and cancer - and HIV.

One blood product, known as Factor VIII, was seen to be highly effective for stopping bleeding but also widely known to be contaminated with viruses.

A public inquiry is under way into the scandal. The final report is due in May.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: arkansas; bloodgate; clinton; hiv; hrc; taintedblood
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Quite shocking this...
1 posted on 04/18/2024 2:20:27 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

No, the United States has had its own butchery, like this. In fact, not only done on US citizens, but on citizens in other countries, under the guise of “US care.”

All people involved should get the electric chair.


2 posted on 04/18/2024 2:26:47 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: RandFan

The Medical Complex and the Deep State conspire to torture and kill innocents who never gave permission and knew nothing of a an experiment.


3 posted on 04/18/2024 2:28:04 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: RandFan

Were they white Brit kids, or “migrant” kids?


4 posted on 04/18/2024 2:29:39 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense)
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To: RandFan; All

I don’t see well, so correct me if I missed it in the article....
SERIOUSLY??
NO mention of the Clintons And Arkansas???

Headlines the Media never reported. BLOODGATE

Tainted Arkansas blood was Why Hillary was booed when she went to Ireland last year.

https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2018/10/headlines-media-never-reported-bloodgate.html?m=1

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Yes, it was well known enough that it got a title, by thousands of us, who really had no national voice. But we studied it, we followed it for years. It was a big news item in Canada, Ireland and other places, where their citizens lives were sacrificed for political expediency in “old time Southern” Arkansas.

The scheme by the governor and his minions, along with a couple of other nefarious state leaders was to bleed Arkansas inmates to sell the blood to blood banks for ill patients overseas.


5 posted on 04/18/2024 2:30:45 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: RandFan

More:

Unethical human experimentation in the United States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

Another:

Guatemala syphilis experiments
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiments

Still trust your beloved government?

I didn’t think so.


6 posted on 04/18/2024 2:32:07 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Headlines the Media never reported. BLOODGATE
https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2018/10/headlines-media-never-reported-bloodgate.html


7 posted on 04/18/2024 2:32:34 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: RandFan

THE DEEP STATES MAY HAVE STARTED IN ENGLAND!


8 posted on 04/18/2024 2:35:18 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: RandFan

Why shocking? It is Socialized Medicine. All sorts of agencies have access o make use of the patient database. We did a lot of that here with the WuHan flu and it will happen again as medicine gets more and more centralized and more and more government controlled.


9 posted on 04/18/2024 2:41:21 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe Mb)
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https://nypost.com/1999/02/23/bad-blood-between-clinton-pal-and-canada/

Published Feb. 23, 1999, 5:00 a.m. ET
A group of Canadians who say they got tainted blood from Arkansas prisons while Bill Clinton was governor come to Washington tomorrow to demand redress.

They want Attorney General Janet Reno to probe how they got the blood – believed tainted with HIV and Hepatitis C – that was collected from inmates for profit by a firm headed by a Clinton cohort.

David Harvey, a lawyer for the Canadian victims, estimated 1,000 hemophiliacs were exposed to tainted U.S. prison plasma.

The victims say they’ll also sue the Canadian government for failing to properly protect the blood supply.

The allegedly tainted blood was sold to Canadian blood processors in the mid-’80s by a now-defunct firm, Health Management Associates, run by Leonard Dunn, who headed Clinton’s 1990 re-election fund-raising.


10 posted on 04/18/2024 2:46:35 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: ConservativeMind

Agreed, but justice will never come


11 posted on 04/18/2024 3:09:07 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: RandFan

England’s version of the Tuskegee syphilis trials🤔!


12 posted on 04/18/2024 3:14:16 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & subvertion )
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To: ConservativeMind

I don’t trust the U.S. Government because there is a shortage of educated government employees due to the terrible education they receive in the Government schools. It is a vicious circle like what you see in the toilet bowl.


13 posted on 04/18/2024 3:15:53 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: RandFan

friend of mine was a hemophiliac

he was on a clotting drug made by Cutter

the label said

WARNING

The presence of Hepatitis should be assumed at all times.

The use of Cutter is to be weighed against it’s non-use.

it was before AIDS


14 posted on 04/18/2024 3:19:02 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: RandFan
Well, anyone unjabbed taking blood from the general supply here in the US isn't getting blood that's been separated from the jabbed population.

Anyone unjabbed who wants unjabbed blood might want to consider a more advanced country that separates the two; Mexico is one such country.

15 posted on 04/18/2024 3:24:25 PM PDT by Captain Walker ("It is infinitely better to have a few good Men, than many indifferent ones." - George Washington)
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To: ConservativeMind

Jailed for life
Confiscate all assets


16 posted on 04/18/2024 3:32:31 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Chode

Wow.


17 posted on 04/18/2024 3:52:13 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

yup, and he had to take it everyday, i lost track of him but he’s prolly past by now


18 posted on 04/18/2024 3:59:57 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Thanks for asking this critical question!

Were they white Brit kids, or “migrant” kids?


19 posted on 04/18/2024 5:19:16 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((“Surrender often myeans wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control!” — Sylvia Boorstein.))
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To: RandFan

I remember how thrilled the homos were when their aids infected blood was given to Ryan White “proving” aids wasn’t just for homosexuals and drug users.


20 posted on 04/18/2024 5:52:05 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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