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Jean McGuire
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Jean McGuire for Northeastern Global News

How did US prisoner blood infect thousands in the UK? Northeastern experts unpack the scandal
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How did US prisoner blood infect thousands in the UK? Northeastern experts unpack the scandal

Over 30,000 victims of the contaminated blood scandal were given infected blood, mostly imported from the US, in the 1970s and 80s.