How British patients were infected with HIV by US prisoners who donated blood for a few dollars (www.telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by nekandro@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] gh0stcassette 39 points 11 months ago

Do they not still test the blood for HIV regardless of how "high risk" the donor is? You should be tested immediately prior to donation and the donation rejected if you test positive, this is a fuck-up on whoever took the blood. Also, prisoners??? Why in the fuck are we paying prisoners for their blood? Every private prison company should be nationalized and have its leaders tried for their crimes istg.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 16 points 11 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.