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Children were used as "objects for research" while the risks of contracting hepatitis and HIV were ignored at a specialist school where boys were treated for haemophilia, the final report of the Infected Blood Inquiry has found.
Of the pupils that attended the Lord Mayor Treloar College in Hampshire during the 1970s and 80s, 'very few escaped being infected'.
More than 3,000 UK patients died and many continue to suffer after tens of thousands of vulnerable patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis.
Read the full timeline of what happened in over half a century before the inquiry found an infected blood scandal was 'not an accident' but the result of a series of shocking failures followed by a cover-up.
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