Verdict in French blood trial shames science
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Michel Garretta and Jean-Pierre Allain face imprisonment after being convicted in France of deliberately allowing hemophiliacs to receive clotting factors containing the HIV virus in 1985. Both men formerly worked for the French National Blood Transfusion Centre, Garretta as director and Allain as chief researcher. The verdicts said that the two also failed to authorize heat-inactivation of the blood products, a process known in 1985 to destroy HIV, the cause of AIDS. Garretta will be imprisoned for four years and will pay a $100,000 fine; two years of Allain's four-year sentence were suspended.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Uproar greets new blood scandal indictment
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The indictment of a French AIDS epidemiologist, Jean-Baptiste Brunet, has drawn attention toward the contamination of the French blood supply with HIV viruses. He suggested an examination of the contaminated haemophiliacs through blood screening and collection of poisoned blood earlier but was ignored. The French Supreme Court of Appeals can survey the malfunctions in the health care system concerning the contaminated blood issue but there are doubts regarding the legal community's ability to bring justice to the issue.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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French appeal court sends Allain to jail
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Jean-Pierre Allain and Michel Garretta lost their appeals in Jul 1993 against four-year prison sentences. In 1992 the two former officials of the French National Center for Blood Transfusion were convicted of knowingly allowing the center to supply HIV-contaminated blood to hemophiliacs when treated blood was available. The center decided to let its stocks of tainted blood run out before importing heat-purified blood from abroad.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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