Edward Tuddenham is one of the few remaining haemophilia specialists to have treated patients at the beginning of the infected blood scandal in the early 1970s.
To have infected patients with HIV and Hepatitis C in the course of treating them 'is the worst thing you can imagine,' he said. Prof Tuddenham went on to be one of the UK's leading haematologists, isolating the gene that makes the key 'factor 8' protein lacking in many people suffering bleeding disorders.
If that effort had been made, thousands of haemophiliacs would not have been infected with hepatitis C which, we now know many of them were during the 1970s and 1980s. It also would have saved haemophiliacs from a new virus that doctors such as Prof Tudenham unwittingly injected into their veins: HIV. The virus made it into factor concentrates from US blood donors right at the start of the HIV epidemic in the United States in the early 1980s.
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