Death by Negligence
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
THE scandal came into the open in the courtroom. The Canadian Red Cross acknowledged in the court that it had negligently dispensed infected blood in the 1980s. As a result, more than 20,000 people were infected with hepatitis C virus and another 1,000 with HIV.
The revelation followed a complaint by three unidentified victims of the negligence. Two of the plaintiffs died before the end of the trial. The third one was dying.
The three received the
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