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Victims of Britain's tainted blood scandal speak
By GREGORY KATZ
Associated Press Writer
Sat Aug 23, 1:20 PM ET
PEEBLES, Scotland - Robert Mackie trembles with rage when he describes
how he and his wife were kept in the dark about his HIV infection =97
and how doctors published his medical data in journals years before
they gave him the devastating news.
Mackie is one of some 5,700 British hemophiliacs who received tainted
blood and were infected with HIV, hepatitis or both, in what has been
viewed as one of the worst treatment disasters in the history of
Britain's heath care system. Nearly a third of those infected have
since died.
