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1980’s

March 12, 2019

Clotting factor was made by pooling blood of up to 10,000 donors. If one donor was infected with a viral pathogen, the entire batch was infected. In 1982, the CDC reported the first cases of HIV/AIDS among people with hemophilia, and by mid-1983, researchers were able to isolate the virus that causes AIDS. Manufacturers of […]


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