HC Deb 14 December 1990 vol 182 c524W
Mrs. Mahon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many haemophiliacs,who contracted the AIDS virus through blood transfusions, have died since 1986.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

Since the beginning of 1986 up to the end of November 1990, the number of deaths of haemophiliacs with the AIDS virus reported to the communicable disease surveillance centre and the communicable diseases (Scotland) unit has been 140. Haemophiliacs contracted the AIDS virus through contaminated blood products and not blood transfusions.

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