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Presents an expose of the American Red Cross and the mismanagement and neglect that exposed millions of people to a blood supply contaminated by HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious and deadly diseases and the cover-up that followed
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Investigates mismanagement and neglect within the Red Cross, focusing in particular on its exposing millions of people to blood contaminated by HIV, syphilis, hepatitis, and other highly infectious diseases. The account begins in 1983, when the Red Cross decided not to use an HIV screening test for all donors, and reports the FDA investigations which uncovered massive health and safety violations, as well as the US government's permanent injunction requiring the Red Cross and its president, Elizabeth Dole, to improve blood supply and services. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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