Metro – Blood victims treated like lab chimps
The Metro says patients who were later injected with a blood plasma product that killed them or ruined their lives were compared to chimpanzees by medical experts.
Documents discovered by infected blood campaigners show how medical experts compared haemophiliac patients to laboratory chimpanzees.
More than 30,000 people across Britain were infected with hepatitis and HIV after being injected with ‘dangerous’ blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.
It is now known as the infected blood scandal.
For those with haemophilia, injections were given under the disguise of treatment – and without consent.
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