Bad Blood
- Book Review,
by Judith Reitman
Book News, Inc.
Investigates mismanagement and neglect within the Red Cross, focusing in particular on its exposing millions of people to blood contaminated by HIV, syphilis, hepatitis, and other highly infectious diseases. The account begins in 1983, when the Red Cross decided not to use an HIV screening test for all donors, and reports the FDA investigations which uncovered massive health and safety violations, as well as the US government's permanent injunction requiring the Red Cross and its president, Elizabeth Dole, to improve blood supply and services. -- Copyright © 1999 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved
Book Description
In a shocking exposé of the American Red Cross, award-winning journalist Judith Reitman rips the veil of secrecy off the world's largest humanitarian charity.
In 1984 triplet girls born three months prematurely received life-saving blood transfusions. A year later their parents learned that their donor had the AIDS virus. After years of suffering, all three sisters died. Since then, it has been discovered that six more children have received infected blood from the same Red Cross donor.
In May of 1993, for the first time in its history, the U.S. Government brought a lawsuit against the American Red Cross alleging thousands of violations of federal blood and safety laws. Today, the American Red Cross remains under permanent federal injunction.
"Bad Blood" is the never-before-told story of the gross mismanagement and shocking neglect within the American Red Cross. The organization known for its "gift of life" has been responsible for exposing millions of innocent people to a blood supply contaminated by HIV, syphilis, hepatitis and other highly infectious diseases.
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