Human patients were used for testing dangerous blood products which infected tens of thousands of people.
Roger Newman and Neil Hilliard were both infected with hepatitis and HIV in the blood scandal Documents discovered by infected blood campaigners show how medical experts compared haemophiliac patients to laboratory chimpanzees. More than 30,000 people across Britain were infected with hepatitis and HIV after being injected with ‘dangerous’ blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. It is now known as the infected blood scandal.
’ Angela witnessed how Neil’s health ‘slowly went downhill’ as he lost his hair, mobility and he struggled to swallow because of mouth ulcers caused by hepatitis C which he was also infected with earlier. He grew paranoid, lived off liquids and had to wear incontinence pads near the end of his life. ‘It was tough. Nothing we could do as parents.’ Neil saw his schoolfriends from Treloar die and ‘he knew it was coming for him.
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