Friday, January 11, 2008
Telegraph
Contaminated blood provided by the American military might have infected more than 24 British military and civilian personnel, it has been revealed.
Potentially fatal illnesses such as HIV/Aids and a cancer causing virus might have been transmitted into very seriously injured British troops, the Ministry of Defence confirmed.
The infections could have occurred any time between 2001 and last year to soldiers or civilian security guards who needed emergency blood transfusion while being treated in American field hospitals in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Poor record keeping and a less rigorous testing system led the US authorities to inform the British that they could not be certain that the blood was clean.
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1 comment:
A new version of "friendly fire", it would appear.
This is not the first time that blood supplies from the direction of America have been contaminated, and battlefield had nothing to do with it the first time.
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