BAYER knowingly sold drugs infected with HIV!!, page
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reply posted on 22-9-2006 @ 06:38 AM by mrsdudara
This is so wrong.

Here is a link where you can find out more

hemophilia-litigation


Tens of thousands of people with hemophilia worldwide were infected with HIV and/or HCV from the late-1970s through the 1980s after receiving Factor VIII and IX infusions from blood plasma that was originally gathered, processed and manufactured in the United States by Armour, Cutter, Baxter and Alpha or their subsidiaries. Many of these persons have since died. Others were children or teenagers when they received the products and have been infected with AIDS and/or Hepatitis B and/or C for most of their lives.



It goes on to say that they did continue to sell these meds overseas, and kept the good meds for here in America.

What realy stinks about this is that they will not get what they deserve for it. Most likely will never get more than a slap on the hand.



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reply posted on 26-9-2006 @ 01:22 PM by BlaznRob
Early in the AIDS epidemic, the medicine was made using plasma from 10,000 or more donors. There was not yet a screening test for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, so even a small number of HIV-positive donors could taint a large pool of plasma recipients.

Bayer, based in the western German city of Leverkusen, said Cutter continued selling the older version because some customers doubted the new drug's effectiveness, and because some countries were slow to approve its sale. It said there were initially concerns that heat-treating might make the drug less safe or less effective.

Cutter also sold the older medicine in Argentina, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore after February 1984, according to the documents. Cutter shipped more than 100,000 vials of unheated (The drug is the same, but they heat the new one to destroy the AIDS virus) concentrate, worth more than $4 million, after it began selling the safer product.

As a result, thousands of hemophiliacs became infected with HIV. Bayer and three other companies that made the concentrate have paid about $600 million to settle more than 15 years of lawsuits accusing them of making a dangerous product.

The real criminals, aside from corporate bureaucrats, in my opinion, are those in the government and especially within the FDA who tried to cover this entire mess up. Yes, Bayer had to pay *monetary* reprisals, but like the video said, government officials in other nations were jailed for their intentional oversight.

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