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Victims of infected blood scandal rally in Westminster
Infected blood meeting

VICTIMS of the infected blood scandal rallied at Westminster yesterday ahead of the release of the final report into the tragedy. 

Nearly 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s, in one of the worst treatment disasters in NHS history.

More than 3,000 people have died as a result. 

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