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When HIV was inadvertently transmitted through blood transfusions

20 September 2022

Professor Edward Tuddenham (UCL Cancer Institute) said that looking back at decisions in the 1970s and ‘80s around blood transfusions, risk assessments may have been overly optimistic around the likelihood of transmitting pathogens.

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