Healthy Skepticism Library item: 5889

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Publication type: news

Scarborough J.
Bayer sold HIV infected blood product
You Tube 2006 Apr 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS3mhjt7TrY&search=Bayer

Full text:

Bayer pharmaceutical company documents
(from its Cutter Biological unit) that had been uncovered during a lawsuit,
revealed that in 1985, Bayer and the FDA colluded by knowingly and
deliberately putting thousands of hemophiliacs at risk of death by selling
an AIDS-infected blood clotting drug in Asia and Latin America.

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