What is the contaminated blood scandal?

Key questions around how thousands of people became infected with hepatitis C and HIV through blood transfusions in 1970s and 80sIn the late 1970s and early 1980s, people with the blood-clotting disorder haemophilia in the UK were given blood donated – or sold – by people who were infected with the HIV virus and hepatitis C. Related: Contaminated blood scandal: Theresa May orders inquiryContinue reading...