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Hepatitis C: Silent Alarm
This series documented the government's numerous failures to warn the American public about hepatitis C, a disease that has infected more than 4 million people in the United States. The series found that the federal government promised repeatedly to raise a public alarm about the disease but reneged almost every time. As a result, most people with hepatitis C don't even know they have it and may be spreading it. The series also found that Congress and CDC give hepatitis C a fraction of the funding and attention they give other disease such as West Nile, that has killed several hundreds. The government promised a search to find nearly two hundred thousand patients who received infected blood transfusions before 1992, when a test was available to screen out infected blood, but four years later, the campaign had stalled. The blood industry in the 1980's delayed a screening test six years that could have prevented hepatitis C in more than 300,000 patients who received blood transfusions. the government never ordered the test even though it was aware of the seriousness of the disease.
Tags: hepatitis c; virus; AIDS; public alarm; Congress; Center for Disease Control and Prevention; HCV; funding; West Nile; infected blood transfusions; infected blood; blood industry; screening test; donated blood; CDC; CDC spending; HCV money; National Institute of Health; Health and Human Services; U.S. Food and Drug Administration; FDA's Office of Blood Research and Review; Blood Products Advisory Committee; Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability; blood banks; Community Blood Center of Kansas City; Oklahoma Blood Institute
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Deadly Needles
The two, three-part series chronicled the deadly risks of medical syringes and blood-drawing devices. The stories disclosed how needle manufacturers, watchdog agencies and global health organizations have ignored, denied or suppressed those risks for years.
Tags: epidemic; needle injuries; health care; infections
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No title (id: 12568)
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as many as 10,000 hemophiliacs in the United States were infected with the AIDS virus from blood-clotting medicines made with human plasma. Today, they are dying at the rate of one a day. The plasma-products industry has portrayed this as an unforeseeable tragedy that could not have been prevented. The Philadelphia Inquirer investigation showed otherwise. (Aug. - Dec., 1995)
Tags: Shaw CAR Blood money and AIDS Contest entry HIV FOIA 48 pgs.
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Bad Blood
This US News & World Report reprint examines the safety of donated blood. The investigation found that blood transfusions are far riskier that people believe. Profils a number of people who recieved blood transfusions and are now infected with HIV or have AIDS. The article finds that hospital patients are often not told of transfusion risks, official reports often understate the problem and that by March 1994, critical problems were still unresolved at blood centers, June 1994.
Tags: DC Newman Loeb Podolsky CAJ CAR Red Cross FDA FOIA Hemophilia 33 pages
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No title (id: 10317)
American Lawyer reveals that most of the nations blood banks did not institute a test to screen blood for AIDS until two full years after the federal Center for Disease Control warned them that they should; at least 12,000 people were infected with the virus as a result, September 1992.
Tags: CA Parloff 6 pages
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No title (id: 9746)
CNN exposes the practices of blood product companies which put profits ahead of safety, causing three out of four hemophiliacs to be infected with aids; finds that companies exported infected products to third-world countries when the U.S. began testing its blood supply, November 10, 1993.
Tags: GA Camp tape 10 pages
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No title (id: 9520)
New Yorker recounts the how thousands of French citizens were infected with the HIV virus and AIDS because the French government refused to screen the nation's blood supply with the American-produced blood test; French citizens were knowingly infected because of national pride, Oct. 11, 1993. # Kramer World Health Organization
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No title (id: 6486)
KCRA-TV (Sacramento, Calif.) chronicles the death of an elderly nursing home patient; an autopsy revealed the woman died from a blood infection caused by festered bed sores; also found the state had not collected over $16 million in nursing home fines, Nov. 6 - 7, 1989.
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