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Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale is a documentary film about contaminated hemophilia blood products.The film was co-written by Marilyn Ness and Sheila Curran Bernard, produced and directed by Marilyn Ness, with cinematography by David Ford, editing by Marion Sears Hunter, and original music score by Joel Goodman and David Bramfitt.
Contaminated hemophilia blood products were a serious public health problem in the late 1970s up to 1985. Hemophilia A causes a deficiency in Factor VIII , a protein required for blood clotting. Factor VIII injections are a common treatment to prevent or stop bleeding in people with hemophilia A. [ 1 ]
According to one estimate, about 133 cases of HIV transmission via blood products took place between March and November 1985. [1] Moreover, a test to screen blood for hepatitis C was made available in 1986, but the Red Cross did not begin using it on donated blood until 1990. [1]
The infection of up to 30,000 people with HIV or hepatitis C from contaminated blood has been called the NHS’s biggest treatment disaster. Infected blood victims had ‘incredibly bad luck ...
M.C. and Others v Italy (right to property case involving bad blood victims) Penrose Inquiry, a 2008–2015 inquiry in Scotland into infected blood products; R (March) v Secretary of State for Health, a 2010 judicial review involving a claimant treated with contaminated blood products
Ryan White is a teenage hemophiliac who discovers he has contracted AIDS through contaminated blood products and is then barred from attending school by Western School Corporation in Russiaville, Indiana, just outside Kokomo. Ryan and his mother engage the services of a high-powered attorney to win back his basic rights to attend school.
Taylor Swift is known for writing autobiographical lyrics about specific people that are or used to be in her orbit. In her song “Bad Blood,” she sends a vindictive message to an ex-friend who ...
Life is good in Taylor Swift's squad. The singer invited members of her "Bad Blood" girl squad to her New York home on Wednesday to hand out Moonmen statues celebrating their MTV Video Music Award ...