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To the Editor: Although Dr. Hoyer has written a comprehensive review of the medical aspects of hemophilia (Jan. 6 issue),¹ the review does not address the effect on patients of blood products contaminated with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The contamination of the blood supply with HIV was the greatest iatrogenic catastrophe in history. Over 7000 people with coagulation disorders were infected between 1979 and 1985, until virally inactivated clotting-factor concentrates were widely introduced²; over 2000 people have died already, and the remainder will eventually have total immune dysfunction³. Hundreds of sexual partners and children were unwittingly infected . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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