Current Events > Big Pharma purposefully sold treatments they knew were passing aids to patients.

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/04/pharmaceutical-giants-sold-hiv-infected-treatment/

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In December 1982, Bayers Cutter Laboratories discovered chimpanzees had developed AIDS-like symptoms after also being treated with Factor VIII, according to an internal memo. However, the company didnt warn patients about the potential risks.

As the dangers became clear, Bayer kept selling Factor VIII.

Having created a safer, heat-treated version without viruses in February 1984, Bayer continued to sell the HIV and hepatitis C-contaminated Factor VIII until August 1985.

The UK kept prescribing the dangerous version of Factor VIII until late 1985, and it never recalled it from hospitals.

Cutter rejected the idea of recalling its infected Factor VIII from Asian countries in 1984 because it could cost up to $2 million worth of sales, according to documents published in The Poison Line: Life and Death in the Infected Blood Scandal.

A year later, the companys marketing plan said, AIDS has not become a major issue in Asia. The company outlined how it would dump the infected product in countries including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Argentina. It added that hysteria over AIDS could reduce our sales by as much as $400,000.

In another case, Revlon Healthcare-owned Armour Pharmaceuticals suppressed evidence from 1985 to 1986 that HIV had been discovered in its safe version of Factor VIII, which had been heat-treated to kill viruses. Rather than withdrawing the faulty product from sale, the company deemed the problem a marketing issue and covered it up.

Thats absolutely fucking evil.

Absolute scumfucks. You should have included the part where they were never charged.

Powdered_Toast posted...

Absolute scumfucks. You should have included the part where they were never charged.

Yeah that's fucked up in itself.