Our governments are just there to HELP, right?
WAKE UP and get your heads out your asses, world!!!
See that coat and that needle? Not a good deal!!!!
"Briton voices anger on tainted blood case; Not told for years of HIV infection" by Gregory Katz, Associated Press | August 24, 2008
PEEBLES, Scotland - Robert Mackie trembles with rage when he describes how he and his wife were kept in the dark about his HIV infection - and how doctors published his medical data in journals years before they gave him the devastating news.
Mackie is one of some 5,700 British hemophiliacs who received tainted blood and were infected with HIV, hepatitis, or both, in what has been viewed as one of the worst treatment disasters in the history of Britain's healthcare system. Nearly a third of those infected have since died.
Tainted blood scandals have been investigated throughout the world - in France, Canada, Japan, and elsewhere - leading to some convictions of health officials and many compensation packages for infected hemophiliacs, but there has been no detailed probe in Britain until now.
Mackie, 58, in his house in Scotland said he asked his doctors if he could be exposed to the killer virus through his use of Factor VIII, a relatively new blood plasma product made from blood collected from thousands of donors. They told him not to worry. A year later, he was infected by a contaminated batch.
"We could have had more of a family," says Alice Mackie, who had a son with Robert before he became infected. "The two of us had plans for what we were going to do. But you could say our whole lives stopped." Mackie, an active sportsman, had hoped to become a salmon fishing guide.
So the government just shattered this families world so it could EXPERIMENT!!!
The tainted blood led to the deaths of Mackie's cousin, two uncles, and friends, who were part of a close-knit community of hemophiliacs in Scotland. "From '87, all we saw was people dying," said Alice, 51. "And believe me, when you see someone dying of AIDS, it's really bad. It's different each time. No one dies the same way."
Mackie said he was told of his infection in 1987. But he told an independent inquiry commission that when he finally obtained his medical records, he learned he had been used for an AIDS study that began years before then.
????! WTF?!!
They INFECTED HIM ON PURPOSE, didn't they?
"This AIDS study was, it seems, the beginning of many years of research being carried out on me without my knowledge or consent," he told the inquiry committee headed by Lord Archer, a former solicitor general.
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Yeah, hi, I'd like to cancel my next doctors' appointment please.
