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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Barney Davis

‘I’m lucky to be alive’ says soldier who was given infected blood transfusion during leg amputation

PA Wire

Four decades after a transfusion that saved his life one soldier only found out he had been living with Hepatitis C eating away at his liver when he was turned away from donating blood.

Brendan West lost his leg in a horror hit-and-run collision while serving in the Army in Germany in 1979.

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