Published 13 days ago

Children used as guinea pigs to test if blood treatments were contaminated

Luke was part of clinical trials leading to him contracting hepatitis C, highlighting unethical testing practices on sick children, as reported by the BBC.
Survivors described feeling like "guinea pigs" in trials that left many infected with hepatitis C and HIV, with experiments conducted on a group of vulnerable haemophiliac boys at a school, per BBC reports.
Ade Goodyear emphasized feeling like a "lab rat" due to multiple studies at the school, as disclosed to the BBC.

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BBC News

Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials

They were given infected blood products in trials without their knowledge, the BBC has found.

13 days ago·United Kingdom

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The Guardian

Infected blood scandal: victims’ families hope report will finally apportion blame

UK government’s apologies so far have had a distinct lack of candour about what it is apologising forSurviving victims and relatives of those who died as a result of receiving infected blood and blood products from the NHS in the 1970s and 80s will gather in a few weeks at the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster.After six years of taking evidence, Sir Brian Langstaff’s public inquiry will finally unveil its report there on 20 May. Continue rea…

18 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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Metro News

Children used as 'lab rats' in clinical trials which gave them hep C and HIV

The infected blood scandal took hundreds of lives and will cost the taxpayer billions (Picture: AFP/GETTY) Doctors across the UK gave children blood treatments widely known to be contaminated as part of clinical research in the 1970s and 80s, according to a report. Survivors said they were treated like ‘guinea pigs’ or ‘lab rats’ in trials which left hundreds infected with hepatitis C and HIV. The findings are the latest development in the infec…

13 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Times

Children used as guinea pigs to test if blood treatments were contaminated

Families were not told even when they later contracted deadly viruses, according to documents about the scandal in the 1970s and 80s collected by the Infected Blood Inquiry

13 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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Novinky.cz

British doctors tested babies with infected blood

British doctors in the seventies and eighties of the last century infected more than 30 thousand people with HIV and jaundice type C through blood products from infected blood. Until now, it has been claimed that the blood, which was known to be at risk, was used on an emergency basis due to a lack of other blood. But a new investigation has revealed that some doctors deliberately tested infected blood products on children without the knowledge …

13 days ago

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GB News

Three-year-olds 'used as guinea pigs' to test whether blood treatments were contaminated with diseases

The families of children as young as three who were used to test whether blood treatments were contaminated with diseases were not informed about the deadly viruses they contracted, documents reveal.Data collected by the Infected Blood Inquiry found that one toddler with haemophilia was trialled to test whether a form of sterilisation, dubbed heat-treatment, could be applied to blood-clotting drugs to reduce the risk of infecting patients with h…

12 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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