Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials

They were given infected blood products in trials without their knowledge, the BBC has found.

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I'm stunned. The eighties. Children. Jesus.
- I think it was Bayer who sent hiv infected products to Africa since they couldn't sell them in the US.
  
  Ghoulish
  
  Oh, the Roundup and Zyklon people? Go figure.
- One was only an infant. What the ever-loving holy fuck.
- Even the nineties and beyond, if you think of the vaccine-causing-autism to-do and mad cow disease.
  
  Can you please point me to credible studies wrt that?
Odds against anyone being criminally charged I'm guessing.
- The majority of children involved are already dead now.

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