UK officials will launch an inquiry into why thousands of patients, many of them hemophiliacs, became infected with HIV and hepatitis C from blood products used more than 30 years ago.
Those infected were treated with blood-clotting agents, a Downing Street spokesman said Tuesday.
Some 2,400 people died as a result of the tainted blood treatment, “and it was necessary to establish the causes of this appalling justice,” the spokesman said.
Those affected will help decide what form the inquiry will take, he said. The inquiry will span the entire United Kingdom.
Source: UK to launch inquiry into tainted blood product that killed 2,400 – CNN.com
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