UK blood scandal: Victims await report into HIV and hepatitis C infected blood treatments | BBC News 

No investigation No one fired No one jailed No compensation

"U. S. companies were aware that their products were infected with viruses." Let that sink in.

This is not negligence. They knew exactly what they did.

This is a crime against humanity.

Knowingly giving kids HIV? That is on an absolutely crazy level of evil. The people responsible dont deserve forgiveness

This is absolutely dreadful and the fact that victim's are only just getting an investigation 30 years too late, is absolutely evil and vile.

What the hell, how isn't this international news? This is actually a huge negligence and incredibly EVIL

I been donating blood in HK for ten years and every time when i fill out the form they ask if you were in UK during that time and have you ever received blood transfusion from UK or US

Imagine your life being cut short because of someone's negligence... And then it takes them decades to get justice?? What a world😢

Focus is on compensation? Why nobody in jail?

My grandfather passed away in 2010 in Canada from Hep C because of this. Losing him was one of the biggest most painful losses. Am I angry? Yes

Don't they tested the blood beforehand? That is just cruel.

When I was 17, I got a letter from a Canadian Medical office stating that I was in a risk group for receiving possible contaminated blood during a surgery when I was 7, it took 10 years for them to contact me. It took 3 long stressful weeks to get results, fortunate for me I was very lucky to have not received contaminated blood, I can't imagine what those poor souls went thru after finding out they are infected with god knows what!

As Blood donor in Portugal, you have to declare that you wasn't living in UK by that time.

My dad died in 2015. He had hemophilia. As a child, when receiving a blood transfusions, he contracted HIV from one of those transfusions…

This is sick 30,000 families affected by this and it takes them this long!! People need to go to jail!

Criminal charges should be brought to the people in charge

This is a monstrous injustice over two continents.

People, if you're having a scheduled surgery and are healthy enough, be proactive and take action early on and ask your doctor for an autologous blood donation. Your blood will be taken and saved for you after surgery. You got to do it early enough though so your body can replenish before surgery like 1-2 months prior surgery.

That is pure terrorism.

How can you infect someone with HIV or hepatitis C and then treat them like second-class citizens that’s messed up. They need to be compensated. Maybe even criminal charges.

My younger sister 13 was a victim of this horrific blood scandal and it’s all coming to light finally. Those responsible need to be held accountable this is effectively a serious Crime Against Humanity😢 RIP In loving memory of my late sister Emma ❤️ Thank you for your supportive comments and kind words, This post is to also reflect others who have been victims of this terrible atrocity.

This sounds like the Tuskegee study which saw some 600 African American men who were recruited into the study for 40 years. They were not told the exact purpose of the study. The most horrendous part being the fact that they were denied treatment even when medication was developed. Most of them died needlessly. So much wockedneess!

This is how my dad got hep c and died. But that is in the usa. Usa has a huge problem with this on a regular basis. And was not 30 yrs ago. Like maybe 10 yrs ago. And it still happens to people every day even now.

Wtf 30,000 victims are a huge number

Sick way on how they treated these people 😢

This also happened in the US....MY sister contracted Hepatitis C in 1983 due to blood transfusion,!

Why is it so difficult to have a blood donor perform an AIDS and hepatitis test, which would officially certify that a person is healthy or it would be found that he is infected and then he would automatically be entered into a database and banned from donating blood?

This is from 40 years ago! Why hasn't this been judged and compensated 20 years ago?

As an American, I'm further disgusted with, disappointed in, & absolutely appalled by my own nation. My deepest apologies & condolences to all affected by this. What an absolute outrage & total evil. And knowing that health officials around the world wanted to keep it quiet rather than listen to those who knew something was wrong?....I have no words. Reminds me of the nurse who was killing his patients- they sent him from hospital to hospital, dismissing him on bogus claims because no one wanted to deal with the "headache" of having to take moral, legal, or professional responsibility for the fact that a serial killer was operating freely without anyone's knowledge. I see just the same wickedness in this news story. I hate to say that it's not a surprise they've been fighting for recompense for decades. The higher ups typically don't care until it happens to them. And even then, they just want justice & solution for themselves, they rarely care if it comes for others.

I lost 1400 cc of blood. They said that I would die. I didn’t want the blood but I took it. Thank God the blood was good. I’m still here.

I am an American who got a blood transfusion in 1984. Here there is no mention , much less compensation for those getting Hep C through a blood transfusion. The whole issue is ignored. At least UK is having some accountability.

Shame on you all systems 😔

The heartbreaking story of 7 year old Colin John Smith is one I'll never forget. The other is hearing the parents of a 3 year old boy who was infected with AIDS having people say to them... "Isn't he very young to be gay!". There are thousands of others too, like Lee Turton who suffered so much during his short life. I never thought I'd hear of a scandal worse than the post office, but this is something on a completely different scale. Wishing peace and comfort to all those affected, although I know that will never be fully achieved.

and they wonder why we Americans do not trust the pharma companies...if you did not know...then learn. pharma companies care about $$$. they should be barred from any and all lobbying & donations to politicians under penalty of prison time. It's hush money basically.

My husband got hepatitus C from a blood transfusion in South Africa, before it was screened for Hep C. Luckily it was picked up whilst testing for something else, 25 years later. After participating in a hep C trial, he is now 100% cured, not a trace of Hep C left in his body. One of the lucky ones!!

There's no way this was an accident...😮

OMG. In Canada we had our Royal Commission on tainted blood back in 1993! The tainted blood is one thing, but to hide it is another crime.

… and we don’t think this is happening today? What a terrible world😢

How Horrific!!! I am an RN and This makes me nauseated. How can a company be so cavalier or an individual KNOWINGLY give infected blood to anyone? Where is justice for all of the precious lives lost??? All because someone didn’t want to be bothered to check the blood! There is blood dripping from the hands of everyone that contributed to this ghastly event. Those people need to be brought up on charges for manslaughter and all of those victims and families compensated for this horrible crime.

The same problem here in Portugal. It was HIV-infected blood purchased from an Austrian laboratory in the 1980s because we didn't have enough from our donors. The blood and derivatives went to a Pediatric Hospital and were used mainly in hemophiliac children. Many of them have already died, I know one of the survivors. But the then Minister of Health and a few other people were in court in the early 2000s, and the families had legal support from the Portuguese Hemophilia Association. Even so, it was considered too late, the legal process had started in 1994. Why only now in the UK?

Unbelievable. I thought blood donations had to be checked for all types of contaminants. Such gross negligence. My heart goes out to all affected and infected.

Prayers for the victims and their families

This is so heartbreaking 💔 praying for those families

Jail, to those who had access to those reports and did nothing to prevent it. And compensation to the victims. UNBELIEVABLE

What the actual F!! 😮 Ive only just seen this! This is absolutely abhorrent

"US companies were aware that their products were infected with viruses" Hi from the US. I wish I could say I was surprised by this, but I'm not. All in all, I am deeply sorry for what corporate greed in this country has done and I hope these victims get the compensation they deserve and the closure they need ❤

This is beyond disgusting and infuriating! Where is the accountability?!

My mom fought the hep c that she had been exposed to during blood transfusions while birthing my older brother. I'd love an apology for the hell we went through during the period interferon was the only treatment, I had to give her subcutaneous shots knowing she would lose her mind for two days. We finally had to stop and wait for better ones once she had a psychotic break and thought I was her mother. They don't have enough money to smooth that horror but at least they could proffer an apology.

Imagine, people went to the hospital to treat a sickness, instead, they packaged a deadlier disease to give those poor souls as if they were sharing souvenirs. What a shame!!! They think everything is politics. I pray for healing for every family.

My cousin was a hemophiliac. He took Factor 8 routinely. He lived to well into his 70s and never converted. He died recently. He was blessed. 🇺🇸

Wait. They mixed infected with normal blood to dilute it, but that's now how blood infections work...

Wow. The stigma and the discrimination these people faced, and worse the symptoms.

If what you say is true that U.S. drug companies knew of the breach of the "clean" blood with the contaminated blood, then, were any person from the drug companies in U.S. charged with a crime?

This is why I no longer wanna go hospitals, thank GOD I don't remember the last time I went, myb 10+yrs ago

Heartbreaking

Such negligence and tragic for the innocent victims..

OMG this is insane can u imagine what they are doing to us without knowing?

Prayers for healing

My dear condolences to you everyone affected by this devastating misconduct….

it always goes back to American greed

this terrible, oh my god. i have shivers just listening this. "importing blood from usa" just speechless, how terrible is this. just wow.

This is horrible. I'm so sorry to everyone this caused heartache and pain.😥

So sad unbelievable my heart goes to the affected families 😢

The same thing happened in Canada, the Royal Commission held that the Red Cross was negligent.

When the bible says dont take blood, u think u know more than the creator

Don't they screen the blood and it's products before transfusion????😢

I got Hep-C in US Navy when getting my initial vaccines on enlistment, when they used the Jet injector. Had Hep-C when it was identified as Non-A, Non-B Hep US Veteran’s Affairs cured the Hep-C and gave me 100% disability for the rest of my life. This was in 1971

Prayers for all the victims That is TERRIBLE!

This is a disgrace. Who will be held responsible and accountable? So damn sad

Heart breaking

Is there one day without a big scandal in the UK?

Unfreaking believable.... MANY people need to go to JAIL

Encourage HIV testing in Britain. Why isn't this done? It's not just the people who were infected years ago... It's all the people they spread it to. Does the government not want to know how many people were affected? It's not about compensation and apologies... It's about tracing infected people, treating them and jailing those responsible.

Excellent reporting. Thank you

This was in other places as well like Australia. No sorting or testing of blood, no separation of batches after aids. The system and processes did not keep pace with reality

Healthcare is a literal minefield, regardless of your location. Is gaslighting a course taught in med school? Trust no one and never go to hospital. So sad. 😢

This is so horrific and sad.

Wow this is so sad and terrifying

How in the world do they not test all blood donated?!?! Insane and despicable!

Seems like this stuff should be tested before it's ok'd to be used.

Oh my goodness 😲😭

This is so sad, mom had a high risk pregnancy with me and I ended up with Jaundice in '87. Doctors told her I would likely need blood transfusion if I kept getting worse and they were upfront that it could have HIV. Luckily I barely got better and didn't need it, but a lot of parents in the US were in the same situation.

This is so heart breakingly dreadful.. Oh my God! Please help their inocent souls 💔

Same case in Japan as well. Litigation began in 1988, settlement in 1996. How was is possible to delay for so long?!

This happened in Poland as well. A primary school friend of my sister's died in the 1980's after receiving infected blood. She was devastated.😢

What was said @1:30 is absolutely INSANE

Absolutely horrible. Had never heard about this until today, hoping for justice for those people and for charges for the responsible.

Playing with lives of people

I'm very very sorry this is so cruel 😭 I can't hold my tears

This is horrendous. 💔

My boss was a hemophiliac and died in the 80's from this.

How awful! So if it was from US blood, did this also not happen in the US?

Wow that’s huge and terrible.

Oh dear, how could this happen?

We have had a very similar scandal in Italy. Contaminated blood was used for transfusions and for emophilia between the 70s and the 80s

This is absolutely disgusting

Keep calm and carry on.

O my. You guys imported the blood. In my country there were blood donation campaign to courage people donated their blood to national blood bank. There is no pay for that, its volunteering effort & if you donated for many times the hospital will give special gift, that all. Before the donation, people need to do health screening test. So no need to import the blood from other country.

So shocking. My heart goes out to all the families and victims. This should never of happened. Shame on health professionals that covered it up . The families deserve millions in compensation