Monthly Archives: May 2022

Contaminated Blood: From AIDS to Monkeypox is anyone talking about blood safety?

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Carol Anne Grayson

For longstanding haemophilia campaigners that lived through and researched the emergence of the AIDS virus in the early 1980s, it is impossible to forget the delays and denials regarding plasma safety and the alleged incompetence and negligence in terms of … Continue reading →

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Contaminated Blood: The high price of cheap cattle feed…..the exposure of haemophiliacs to variant CJD

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Carol Anne Grayson

The history of variant CJD exposure in haemophiliacs given factor concentrate treatment (pooled plasma products) for an inherited bleeding disorder and the fight for Recombinant synthetic treatment are very closely inter-twined. As soon as they became aware that vCJD could … Continue reading →

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Contaminated Blood: Would the government and more regional health authorities have been found liable had all haemophilia cases gone to court?

Posted on May 15, 2022 by Carol Anne Grayson

Dr Peter Kernoff, was a well renowned Consultant Haematologist who had worked at both the Oxford Haemophilia Centre and the Royal Free Hospital in London. Under his care were haemophiliac patients born with a disorder where there blood does not … Continue reading →

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Apartheid Israel: Open letter to MP Nick Brown calling for a UK ban on political “friends of Israel” groups, Israel must be held to account for the death of Shireen Abu Akleh and many others

Posted on May 14, 2022 by Carol Anne Grayson

Dear Nick, As your constituent, I am writing to you to express my horror and revulsion at the shooting to death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the shocking and violent attack on mourners at her funeral by … Continue reading →

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