October 1, 2007: A judge in Canada has acquitted four doctors and a US drug company of criminal negligence in a tainted-blood scandal.
Fast Facts:
- Before Canada used newer blood screening practices, 20,000 people were infected with hepatitis C or HIV in the 1980s and 1990s
- 3,000 people are known to have died as a result of these tainted blood products
- The trial covered seven of the more than 1,000 people who were infected from an HIV-infected blood-clotting product made by US-based Armour Pharmaceutical
- A second trial will deal with the bulk of the deaths and the thousands infected with hepatitis C
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