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British troops provided with unscreened blood
Not the NHS to blame this timeEIGHTEEN British soldiers were last night facing an agonising wait to see if they will contract a deadly disease through contaminated blood supplied by America. Today it was revealed that six British civilian workers may have also received the blood transfusions. The gravely wounded troops needed drastic transfusions after cheating death on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Now they fear they could yet be killed by donated blood that was not properly screened and certified by US authorities. It could leave them vulnerable to potentially lethal infections such as HIV, hepatitis and syphilis. The Sun is describing this as a grotesque example of "friendly fire". Somehow their outrage has left them unable to ask whether the same unscreened blood was provided to American and other coalition troops. Yes, this is scandalous but it is hardly an instance of British troops being treated any more cavalierly than they are by their own government. Posted by: Excalibur 2008-01-10 |
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