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Children used as guinea pigs to test if blood treatments were contaminated

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Friday May 3 2024

Children as young as three were used to test whether blood treatments were contaminated with diseases and their families were not told when they later contracted deadly viruses, documents gathered by the Infected Blood Inquiry reveal.

The letters show that one boy with haemophilia was put forward while still a toddler in 1985 to be part of a trial to test whether a form of sterilisation called heat-treatment could be applied to blood-clotting drugs to reduce the risk of infecting patients with hepatitis.

That boy, Luke O'Shea-Phillips, has told the Infected Blood Inquiry: "The heat treated trial was not discussed with me or my mother."

His medical records show doctors tested his blood regularly and found that he tested positive for hepatitis C in

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