article_snippet: Campaigners estimate more than 30,000 patients across the UK were affected in the 1970s and 1980s, of whom 2,000 have died.
article_snippet: But this came from batches which had not been screened or treated for HIV and hepatitis C, a virus that infects the liver and can cause serious, sometimes fatal damage.
article_snippet: Dame Anita Roddick caught it after a hospital blood transfusion following the birth of Dame Anita Roddick daughter Sam in 1971.
article_snippet: It was a remedy that became a killer at the centre of a huge public health scandal.
article_snippet: Their condition means Their blood fails to clot, and a minor cut can put sufferers at risk of bleeding to death.
article_snippet: The unscreened products were imported because Britain did not supply enough 'home-grown' product.