Contaminated blood scandal in France
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In April 1991, the doctor and journalist Anne-Marie Casteret [fr] published an article in the French weekly magazine the L'Événement du jeudi showing that the Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine [fr][citation needed] knowingly distributed blood products contaminated with HIV to haemophiliacs in 1984 and 1985,[1] leading to an outbreak of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C in numerous countries.[2] It is estimated that 6,000 to 10,000 haemophiliacs were infected in the United States alone.[3] In France, 4,700 people were infected, and over 300 died.[4] Other impacted countries include Canada, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.
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