HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) - The Canadian Red Cross pleaded guilty Monday to distributing blood tainted with HIV and hepatitis C in the 1980s, and was fined $4,000 in the public health disaster that infected thousands. More than 1,000 Canadians contracted blood-borne HIV and up to 20,000 others were infected with hepatitis C after receiving the tainted blood products. About 3,000 people had died by 1997 and the death toll has grown, but recent estimates were not available.Here's a place that mentions the scandal that the MSM ignored at the time.
HOW MANY CANADIANS DID CLINTON KILL?
Jerry Seper reports in The Washington Times (2/25/99, p. A6) that "Angry Canadians yesterday called for a criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department into the sale of infected blood from prison inmates in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor that is expected to kill hundreds of people over the next few years. Michael Galster, a former Arkansas prison health official who first questioned the safety of the blood shipments to Canada, said the probe should focus on ‘unlawful’ collection and distribution of blood products tainted with Hepatitis C and HIV to Canadian hemophiliacs beginning in 1980."
And here's another place.
Even the liberals knew about this. Odd that something this important should be ignored by our MSM. But, not so odd when you consider that 95% of the Power of the Press lies in what they do NOT print.RCMP investigates tainted Arkansas prison blood in Canada By DENNIS BUECKERT The Canadian Press OTTAWA -- The RCMP has opened an investigation into the importing of contaminated prison blood from Arkansas during the 1980s, The Canadian Press has learned. There is speculation the investigation may be heating up due to the imminent departure of President Bill Clinton, former governor of Arkansas, from the White House.
