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UK infected blood scandal: NHS, Government covered up infected blood scandal, says Report

More than 50 years after the first victims received infected blood in the United Kingdom, a public enquiry has concluded that there might have been a "cover up". The bombshell report, released on Monday (May 20) found that 30,000 haemophiliacs or transfusion recipients, who were infected with HIV and/or hepatitis C over more than two decades could "largely, though not entirely, have been avoided"