Billion dollar blood
Description
In the early 1980s, a Sydney man gave blood, not knowing he was infected with the HIV virus and that the deadly microbe in his blood would be passed on to at least eight other patients through transfusion. But instead of coming down with AIDS, the recipients of the contaminated blood went on to make medical history globally. This is a science-detective story about a scientific-community outsider who made a crucial discovery and persisted in having it investigated.
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28 min
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Date of Publication
2013
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Alexander Street
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