Comments | ronkstar: Could I be more pissed off at America?

ronkstar

Could I be more pissed off at America?

Apr 05, 2006 15:48

When Bayer realized that a whole bunch of their injectable children's hemophelia medicine was tainted with HIV, and couldn't be legally be sold in the United States, the FDA approved for them to sell it overseas, instead ( Read more... )

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tiffiegal April 6 2006, 02:16:53 UTC

It wasn't just in other countries honey. My cousing was given an HIV infected blood transfusion while we were kids. He was a hemopheliac. He was six then and made it to the age of 18 and got his high school diploma before he died. There are parts of countries/people I guess we will never understand. Like the money hungry greediness.

ronkstar April 6 2006, 06:01:28 UTC

That happened to some guy in my hometown... it was AIDS very first started getting attention, but there were still a lot of misconceptions. Some children insisted that their children be bussed to different schools so they wouldn't catch it.

Sigh. Shakes head.