Something I found Out About That I Thought You All Should Know. Stay Informed! Bayer Sells AIDS-Infected Drug Banned in U.S. in Europe, Asia Recently unearthed documents show that the drug company Bayer sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine -- Factor VIII concentrate, intended for hemophiliacs -- to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, although they knew that it was tainted with AIDS. The company stopped selling the drug in the United States in 1984, but continued to sell it overseas for an additional year. The medicine was made using combined plasma from large numbers of donors; at the time, there was no screening test for the AIDS virus, so a tiny number of donors with AIDS could inadvertently contaminate a large batch. Unloading the Drug on the Unknowing Records show that the company continued to sell the medicine overseas in an attempt to avoid being left with a large stock of a drug that was no longer marketable in the United States. The dangers of the drug had become well-known domestically, but the news was slower to reach other parts of the world. However, Bayer also continued to manufacture the medicine for several months after pulling it from the market in the United States, because it was cheaper to produce than the new, safer product they were introducing as a replacement. Although worldwide numbers are difficult to calculate, in Hong Kong and Taiwan alone, more than 100 hemophiliacs contracted HIV after using the medicine, and most have died. FDA Collusion FDA regulators helped to keep the continued sales hidden, asking the company that the problem be ''quietly solved without alerting the Congress, the medical community and the public,'' according to the minutes of a 1985 meeting. Here's the News Report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS3mhjt7TrY&search=Bayer*Video taken from Youtube, Artlicle taken from http://www.mercola.com/2006/aug/5/bayer_sells_aids-infected_drug_banned_in_us_in_europe_asia.htm
Oh wow. You know, the company Bayer always rubbed me the wrong way and I never knew why. Perhaps some Women's Intuition? But my question is: How much of this stuff is really still circulating? I mean, this stuff happened 23-24 years ago... that's quite a while. Odd how I never heard about it, though.
yeh thats horrible.. but like u said back then they didnt screen for Aids so its not really their fault..... if they did that now, then their would be a big problem.... but back then who wouldve known....
Yeah, but see, they continued to sell in in other parts of the world even after they knew it was contaminated.
Exactly. Bunnah's right, we weren't very knowledgeable about the disease back then so it's "okay" that they made a mistake, but to continue to deliberately make that mistake is what the problem is.. Makes me sick.
Title should be Sold AIDS-infected drug, not 'Sells' lol I was under the impression it was happening in 2007, when I opened the topic..interesting stuff nonetheless...
Just like the DDT incidents. Corporations have incredible ways of hiding things. Most lawyers don't go and practice law, they graduate and work for big companies. These lawyers have jobs such as hiding deeds, opening and closing corporations, transfering counties, and erasing all tracks of anything. There's a DDT company with 100 lawyers hiding a document that proves they are responsible for the contamination of a whole forest in west virginia. The US government has assigned a team of 10 people to track this document down. So.... 10 against 100. Even if we do find out about these things, there are ways to violate and loop through the system.