Contaminated blood: Pharmaceutical firms 'must be held accountable'

Pharmaceutical companies that produced products infected with HIV and hepatitis C must be held accountable by a forthcoming public inquiry, campaigners and victims say.More than 3,000 people, many of them haemophiliacs, were infected by contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s and more than 2,400 have died.A public inquiry, chaired by Sir Brian Langstaff, is due to begin later this year.