BBCNEWS Breakfast July 3, 2024
Official documents also show government and nhs efforts to trace people who are most likely to have been infected were inadequate. Our Health Editor hugh pym has this report. In the 20 years before 1990, up to 27,000 people had transfusions with blood that was contaminated with the virus hepatitis c. A quick diagnosis and treatment can save lives, but transfusion cases are still coming forward. The hep c trust says two newly diagnosed people call their helpline every month. There are people still out there that have the virus that havent been picked up, up until now. And thats really quite sho...