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Holy crap! Here's some news that SERIOUSLY grossed me out! It's just so gross and humiliating, it was hard for me to read the first paragraph without blowing enough chunks to fill up the Golden Gate Bridge.
You wanna know what one of the secret ingredients in Bayer medicine is? HUMAN BLOOD! And it's CONTAMINATED, too!
Several hemophiliacs filed a lawsuit against Bayer Corp. and other companies, claiming they exposed patients to HIV and hepatitis C by selling medicine made with blood from sick, high-risk donors.
The lawsuit alleges the companies continued distributing the blood-clotting product in Asia and Latin America in 1984 and 1985, even after they stopped selling it in the United States because of the known risk of HIV and hepatitis transmission.
The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court seeks class-action status on behalf of thousands of foreign hemophiliacs who received the product, said attorney Robert Nelson. It accuses the companies of negligence and fraudulent concealment.
"This is a worldwide tragedy," Nelson said. "Thousands of hemophiliacs have unnecessarily died from AIDS and many thousands more are infected with HIV or hepatitis C."
Bayer rejected the claims, saying in a statement from its headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany Tuesday that it would examine the lawsuit and prepare its defense.
"Bayer at all times complied with all regulations in force in the relevant countries based on the amount of scientific evidence available at the time," the company said, adding that decisions made 20 years ago should not be judged by today's scientific knowledge.
Nelson said the lawsuit was filed in California because defendant Cutter Biological, now a division of Bayer, was formerly based in Berkeley. Several plasma donation sites also were located in the San Francisco Bay area, he said.
The lawsuit was filed less than two weeks after an investigation by The New York Times accused the company of selling old stock of the medicine abroad, while marketing a newer, safer product in the United States.
Bayer told Times it sold the old medicine because some customers doubted the effectiveness of a new version of the product, and because some countries were slow to approve its sale.
While the company said it acted responsibly and in line with the best medical knowledge at the time, Bayer and three other companies that made the concentrate settled 15 years of U.S. lawsuits from people who took the drug, paying about $600 million.
The medicine, called Factor VIII concentrate, can stop or prevent potentially fatal bleeding in people with hemophilia.
Early in the AIDS epidemic, the medicine was commonly made using mingled plasma from 10,000 or more donors. Because there was not yet a screening test for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, thousands of hemophiliacs were infected.
But the lawsuit alleges Bayer and the others refused to take precautions that could have made the product safer.
As of 1992, the contaminated blood products had infected at least 5,000 hemophiliacs in Europe with HIV. More than 2,000 had already developed AIDS and 1,250 had died from the disease, the lawsuit said.
By the mid-1990s in Japan, hemophiliacs accounted for the majority of the country's 4,000 reported cases of HIV infection and virtually all infections of Japan's hemophiliacs have been linked to contaminated blood products imported from the United States, the lawsuit said.
In Latin America, at least 700 HIV cases are linked to use of contaminated blood products by hemophiliacs, the lawsuit said.
Really want to get sick? Go look up Premarin. And see what the primary ingredient women going through menapause are injesting.
Wed Jun 04, 2003 7:27 am
ToonamiL
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Good thing I'm on Tylenol.
Thu Jun 05, 2003 4:22 pm
TylerL
Joined: Oct 10, 2002
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...y'know what?
Transfusions....are made of BLOOD! _________________ My old sig was too long.
Thu Jun 05, 2003 7:04 pm
ToonamiL
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Ha! I don't take transfusions! Hahahahahahaha!
Fri Jun 06, 2003 8:57 am
stFalcon5
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ToonamiL wrote:
Ha! I don't take transfusions! Hahahahahahaha!
Jehovah's Witness, I'll bet. In any case, while the circumstances surrounding this case are disgusting, almost all drugs produced today have biological origins that aren't some miracle plant in the rain forest (although those are great things in themselves). The Insulin doses injected into the bodies of diabetics daily are the result of waste products from genetically-modified bacteria (I believe insulin comes from E. coli). _________________ "KUSANAGI!"
Fri Jun 06, 2003 2:58 pm
Zechs
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Heh, just be happy Tooth Paste doesn't come from Urine anymore.. _________________ Bang.
Fri Jun 06, 2003 8:43 pm
ToonamiL
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stFalcon5 wrote:
ToonamiL wrote:
Ha! I don't take transfusions! Hahahahahahaha!
Jehovah's Witness, I'll bet.
Yes, yes I am. Is that a problem????...?
Sun Jun 08, 2003 1:26 pm
stFalcon5
Joined: Nov 04, 2002
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ToonamiL wrote:
stFalcon5 wrote:
ToonamiL wrote:
Ha! I don't take transfusions! Hahahahahahaha!
Jehovah's Witness, I'll bet.
Yes, yes I am. Is that a problem????...?
If you don't mind the negative stereotypes, I don't mind flaunting them at you. _________________ "KUSANAGI!"
Sun Jun 08, 2003 3:16 pm
Fodder
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Free country you can be any religion you want. Just remember that your religion isnt the same as everyone elses. So dont take it personally when somoene makes a remark about it. _________________ Certified Narutard
Mon Jun 09, 2003 9:43 am
TylerL
Joined: Oct 10, 2002
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Let's start killing each other.
Whoever is left not-dead, God loves more. _________________ My old sig was too long.
Mon Jun 09, 2003 11:26 am
Fodder
Joined: Apr 02, 2003
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Your implying that there is a good Tyler. Some religions dont believe in that. So no killing each other until we work this okay mmmkay? _________________ Certified Narutard
Mon Jun 09, 2003 12:21 pm
TylerL
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Aww... _________________ My old sig was too long.
Mon Jun 09, 2003 3:03 pm
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TylerL wrote:
Let's start killing each other.
Whoever is left not-dead, God loves more.
War doesn't determine who's right, but who's left. _________________ This space left intentionally blank.
Tue Jun 10, 2003 1:16 pm
TylerL
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War is not about dying for your country.
It's about making the other guy die for his.
(...or something) _________________ My old sig was too long.
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