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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Peter HUTCHISON

UK Blood Scandal Victims To Receive Payouts This Year: Govt

The infected blood scandal has been described as the UK's worst treatment disaster in 80 years of public health (Credit: AFP)

Victims of a decades-long contaminated blood scandal that has killed about 3,000 people in Britain will start receiving final compensation payments this year, the government announced on Tuesday.

More than 30,000 people, including children, were infected with viruses such as HIV and hepatitis after being given the tainted blood between the 1970s and early 1990s.

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