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Monday, January 19, 2015

UK: Apology is wanted by patients who are contaminated by tainted blood

IT WAS a transfusion that was supposed to help Sally Vickers deal with a blood condition, but she says it has given her a death sentence.

Those are the stern words from the 53-year-old who was pumped full of contaminated blood more than 30 years ago.

As a result she contracted hepatitis C – a condition that affects the liver – and has resulted in her giving up work, feeling tired and knowing it could one day kill her because the condition she was born with stops her getting treatment for the virus.

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