Around 3,000 people died and several others have been left with lifelong health conditions after being given contaminated blood in the United Kingdom. Check what are the infections people contracted and how to identify early symptoms of HIV? New Delhi: In a shocking incident, around ten thousand people got infected with HIV and Hepatitis in the UK, reportedly after they were given contaminated blood and blood products between the years of 1970s and early 1990s. As per reports, people who needed blood transfusions for accidents, in surgery or during childbirth and patients with specific blood disorders were treated with donated blood plasma or blood transfusions.
As per the estimates so far, one person dies as a consequence of infected blood every four days. So far, around 3,000 people died and several others have been left with lifelong health conditions after being given contaminated blood. However, an infected blood inquiry is due to conclude even after seven years after the information first came in.
But who was affected by the blood transfusion scandal? According to reports, two main groups of victims needed blood transfusions and the other group of people were the ones who had bleeding disorders as their part of treatment. Out of these, several victims had a bleeding disorder called haemophilia. Haemophilia is an inherited condition that has a shortage of the protein that enables human blood clots, also named Factor VIII.
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