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Tens of thousands of people in the UK were infected with deadly viruses after they were given contaminated blood and blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s.
Thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis C by contaminated blood products and transfusions.
Some infected with hepatitis C as a result of receiving tainted blood have only learnt they were infected after the virus has ravaged their livers, leaving them with life-limited damage.
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.
The former swimmer and has opened up about the impact on her family of NHS failures which are the focus of a public inquiry - after her mother contracted hepatitis C then liver cancer.