The United Kingdom will pay thousands of people who were infected with Hepatitis C or HIV through contaminated blood about $120,000 each, the government said
who were infected with hepatitis C or HIV through contaminated blood about $120,000 each, the government said Wednesday.
The government payments follow recommendations from a yearslong inquiry examining the tainted blood scandal in the U.K. in the 1970s and 1980s. Thousands of people with hemophilia and other blood disorders were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through blood treatments from the National Health Service. At least 2,400 people died,
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