‘We’ve messed up, boys’
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite: Bad Blood, 16 November 2023
The Poison Line: A True Story of Death, Deception and Infected Blood
by Cara McGoogan.
Viking, 396 pp., £20, September 2023,978 0 241 62750 1 Show More
by Cara McGoogan.
Viking, 396 pp., £20, September 2023,
Death in the Blood: The Inside Story of the NHS Infected Blood Scandal
by Caroline Wheeler.
Headline, 390 pp., £22, September 2023,978 1 0354 0524 4 Show More
by Caroline Wheeler.
Headline, 390 pp., £22, September 2023,
“... blood products and Aids. Many scientists disagreed. On 9 May 1983, a leading epidemiologist, Dr Spence Galbraith, wrote to the DHSS that on his assessment of the evidence, ‘all blood products made from blood donated in the USA after 1978 should be withdrawn … until the risk of Aids transmission … has been clarified.’ He pointed out that given the ... ”
