A New York Times report from 2003 details a scandal in which pharmaceutical giant Bayer intentionally sold millions of dollars worth of AIDS-tainted medication in Asia and Latin America in the mid-1980s.
According to the report, the medicine is called Factor VIII concentrate. It effectively provides the missing ingredient without which hemophiliacs’ blood can’t clot. It was made using pools of plasma from 10,000 or more donors.
In the early days of ...
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