Bad blood: how haemophiliacs were infected with HIV

As many as 2,000 British haemophiliacs died after being given tainted blood plasma in the 1970s and 80s

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A public inquiry into a contaminated blood scandal which is believed to have led to the deaths of more than 2,000 British haemophiliacs over the past 30 years has finally got underway.

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