Posted AT 9:53 AM EST on 18/09/08
Persevering through tragedy
The tainted-blood tragedy is the worst public health disaster in Canadian history. Some 2,000 hemophiliacs and transfusion recipients died of HIV-AIDS and at least 20,000 more recipients of blood and blood products will die as the result of blood-borne infection with hepatitis C.
The Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada, headed by Mr. Justice Horace Krever, dissected the failures at the root of the tragedy in meticulous detail.
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