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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Joe Middleton and Maryam Zakir-Hussain

The school killed by contaminated blood: Of 122 boys infected only 30 are still alive

Infected Blood Inquiry/PA Wire

School children were used as “objects for research” with risks of contracting hepatitis and HIV were ignored, the final report of the Infected Blood Inquiry has found.

Of the pupils that attended the Lord Mayor Treloar College in the 1970s and 1980s, “very few escaped being infected” and of the 122 pupils with haemophilia that attended the school between 1970 and 1987, only 30 are still alive.

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