How British patients were infected with HIV from US prisoners who donated blood for a few dollars
www.telegraph.co.uk
Inmate describes how they had sex in the line to donate plasma and used bribed peers to let them go ahead even when they were high risk
  • Wahots@pawb.social
    16·
    6 months ago

    This was in the 70s and 80s, they probably didn’t have the tech. Kinda old news.

    The new hotness is vampire facials at unlicensed clinics. They mix up your own blood with someone else’s, or don’t clean the centrifuge, you get infected.

    • gh0stcassette
      3·
      6 months ago

      Ah fair, I didn’t actually read the article, I just assumed it was semi-recent lol. Probably should have read it first

      • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        The investigation only finished Monday, thousands of people already died and over 30k were infected