Campaigners have discovered historical notes in medical documents that purport to demonstrate that in the 1970s and 1980s, some patients receiving treatment for the blood clotting disorder hemophilia received blood plasma treatments, which the doctors knew may contaminate the patients and cause hepatitis.
The treating clinicians have insisted that they intended to investigate the relationships between the risk of infection and Factor VIII, the medication used to treat hemophilia.
Director of the advocacy organization Factor 8, Jason Evans, feels that doctors encouraged experiments to go forward even after discovering them.
In his own father’s medical files, he discovered notes referring to the research.
