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Re:Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure by mauvehaus on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @07:51AM (#39189503)
If you want to read more about this history in the US, I cannot recommend And the Band Played On highly enough. The book deals with the early history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and touches on the issues related to blood donations and transfusions given the technical limitations at the time.

It's also a crushingly depressing book.

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Re:Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure by eigenvalue on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:14PM (#39192751)
Yeah, the blood bank companies end up looking really evil in that. If you were a hemophiliac in the early 80s, you were playing Russian roulette constantly.
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