article_snippet: Patients were infected with HIV and Hepatitis C Hepatitis C after receiving blood supplies which had not been properly tested.
article_snippet: The true scale of Hepatitis C contracted via hospital transfusions has taken years to emerge because of the time The true scale of hepatitis C contracted via hospital transfusions can take to start to experience symptoms.
article_snippet: the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood said between 1970 and 1991, contaminated NHS blood products caused an estimated 32,718 people to be infected with hepatitis C. Between 1978 and 1985, 1,500 people were infected with the HIV virus in a similar way, most of whom were also infected with hepatitis C. the Government's Penrose Inquiry investigated only the cases of Scottish victims, and the widow of David Rusling, who died of hepatitis C after being infected during a treatment for haemophilia, said it was a waste of time.
article_snippet: Stephen Wheatley, 53 – a haemophiliac who was infected with hepatitis C – added: 'Stephen Wheatley, 53 – a haemophiliac who was infected with hepatitis C – doesn't go deep enough, Stephen Wheatley, 53 – a haemophiliac who was infected with hepatitis C – doesn't give everybody's story.
article_snippet: The Penrose Inquiry, which gave its findings yesterday, said 478 people acquired the hepatitis C virus from blood product therapy in Scotland and 2,500 acquired the hepatitis C virus from blood transfusion in Scotland between 1970 and 1991.
article_snippet: Sixty patients acquired HIV from therapy with blood products and 18 from blood transfusion in Scotland.
article_snippet: Three men who contracted hepatitis C from blood transfusions have started a legal case to challenge the support available to Three men who contracted hepatitis C from blood transfusions, and it is likely further legal action will follow.
highlights_snippet: Thousands of patients contracted HIV and Hepatitis C after transfusions .
  
highlights_snippet: 3,000 NHS patients acquired Hepatitis C in Scotland in the 1970s and 80s .
  
highlights_snippet: Further 78 patients acquired HIV from botched NHS procedures in Scotland .
  