Cara McGooganBetween 1970 and the early 1990s, 30,000 people in the UK were infected with viruses such as Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV after being given contaminated blood products and transfusions.
These infections affected two main groups: those with rare blood clotting disorders - such as haemophilia - and people who had blood transfusions after childbirth, accidents and during medical treatment.
Cara McGoogan is an investigative journalist and author of The Poison Line: Life and Death in the Infected Blood Scandal…Cara - So at the heart of the infected blood scandal is people with haemophilia.
So yeah, like your friend with Factor VIII, it was a white powder made by pharmaceutical companies and the NHS Blood Products laboratory.
And then you see school children in the UK turning yellow with jaundice after being treated with Factor VIII.

The UK infected blood scandal