Editing Haemophilia (section)

===Blood contamination===
{{main|Contaminated haemophilia blood products}}
[[File:Ryan White.jpg|right|thumb|[[Ryan White]] was an American haemophiliac who became infected with [[HIV/AIDS]] through [[Contaminated haemophilia blood products|contaminated blood products]].]]

Up until late 1985 many people with haemophilia received clotting factor products that posed a risk of [[HIV]] and [[hepatitis C]] infection. The plasma used to create the products was not screened or tested, nor had most of the products been subject to any form of viral inactivation.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

Tens of thousands worldwide were infected as a result of contaminated factor products including more than 10,000 people in the United States,<ref name="pmid20697550">{{cite journal | vauthors = White GC | title = Hemophilia: an amazing 35-year journey from the depths of HIV to the threshold of cure | journal = Trans. Am. Clin. Climatol. Assoc. | volume = 121 | pages = 61–73; discussion 74–5 | date = 2010 | pmid = 20697550 | pmc = 2917149 }}</ref> 3,500 British, 1,400 Japanese,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jcie.org/researchpdfs/JapanResponseAIDS/Japansurvey.pdf|title=Japan's Response to the Spread of HIV/AIDS|publisher = Japan Center for International Exchange|year = 2004}}</ref> 700 Canadians,<ref>{{cite web|title=Commemoration of the Tainted Blood Tragedy – Canadian Hemophilia Society|url=http://www.hemophilia.ca/en/commemoration-of-the-tainted-blood-tragedy/|website=www.hemophilia.ca|date=17 October 2017 }}</ref> 250 Irish,<ref>{{cite web|title=Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Infection with HIV and Hepatitis C of Persons with Haemophilia and Related Matters {{!}} Department of Health|url=http://health.gov.ie/blog/publications/report-of-the-tribunal-of-inquiry-into-the-infection-with-hiv-and-hepatitis-c-of-persons-with-haemophilia-and-related-matters/|website=health.gov.ie|date=30 September 2002 }}</ref> and 115 Iraqis.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Zielbauer|first1=Paul von|title=Iraqis Infected by H.I.V.-Tainted Blood Try New Tool: A Lawsuit|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/04/world/middleeast/04aids.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=4 September 2006}}</ref>

Infection via the tainted factor products had mostly stopped by 1986 by which time viral inactivation methods had largely been put into place,<ref name="pmid3672104">{{cite journal | vauthors = Lowe GD | title = Haemophilia, blood products and HIV infection | journal = Scott Med J | volume = 32 | issue = 4 | pages = 109–11 | date = August 1987 | pmid = 3672104 | doi = 10.1177/003693308703200404| s2cid = 21773694 }}</ref> although some products were shown to still be dangerous in 1987.<ref>{{cite news|vauthors = Picard A|title=RCMP lay 32 charges in tainted-blood case |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rcmp-lay-32-charges-in-tainted-blood-case/article25426655/| website = The Globe and Mail}}</ref>