Bill Clinton's Tainted Blood

A Clinton's Arkansas legacy resurfaced when he was in Scotland to address a business conference. Scots infected with HIV and hepatitis protested outside the meeting. They said that he is responsible for their illnesses.

"I needed Factor 8 because I was in pain, but in being given that treatment I was given a death sentence," a protester in Glasgow told BBC.

As a result of the tainted blood product, the man, who did not want to be named, was infected with both HIV and hepatitis C at age 14.

The British network quotes protester Andy Gunn discussing the blood scandal: "They were making a lot of money. In fact, blood was worth more in weight than gold at the time.

"They knew the blood was infected with HIV and hepatitis and the prisoners were themselves dying of these conditions. It was actually illegal to use the blood in America and they secretly sent it up to Canada where it was turned into Factor 8 and punted around the globe."

Bill Clinton was at the center of a scandal in Arkansas in the 1980s involving the sale of AIDS-tainted blood to Canada, which was distributed through the Red Cross. Last year the Canadian Red Cross pleaded guilty to distributing blood tainted with HIV and hepatitis C which has killed more than 3,000 people. It paid a fine of $4,000 for causing more than 1,000 Canadians to contract blood-borne HIV and as many as 20,000 to become infected with hepatitis C. Clinton has never been prosecuted for his role in scandal. I don't imagine Clinton really cares about these people. It's more garbage he's had to step around on his quest for money and power.


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See also the film Factor 8