2003 The FDA Allowed Bayer to Knowingly Infect People With HIV (Factor 8)

MSNBC: Scarborough Country (August 22nd, 2003)Show more

Joe Scarborough interviews attorney Mike Papantonio regarding Bayer's decision to knowingly sell their HIV tainted 'Factor 8' drug overseas.

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"On August 22, 2003, MSNBC's Scarborough Country had Bayer on their 'Rat of the Week" segment.'"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_products
"Bayer A.G., the giant West German chemical company, said today that it had been sued over its sale of hemophilia drugs that may have been infected with the AIDS virus."
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/18/business/bayer-named-in-aids-suit.html
"It happened in the early 80s, after the Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, reported in July 1982 that haemophiliacs were becoming ill from blood products...factor VIII, produced from the plasma of about 10,000 donors, was not screened for HIV, and it became a leading killer of haemophiliacs in the early years of Aids."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg
"When Bayer’s Cutter Laboratories realized that their blood products, Factor VIII and IX or antihemophiliac factor (AHF), were contaminated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the financial investment in the product was considered too high to destroy the inventory. Cutter misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated AHF to overseas markets in Asia and Latin America without the precaution of heat treating the product recommended for eliminating the risk. As a consequence, hemophiliacs who infused the HIV-contaminated Factor VIII and IX tested positive for HIV and developed AIDS."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24785997/
"thousands of hemophiliacs became infected with HIV. Bayer and three other companies that made the concentrate have paid about $600 million to settle more than 15 years of lawsuits accusing them of making a dangerous product...Bayer, based in the western German city of Leverkusen, said Cutter continued selling the older version because some customers doubted the new one's effectiveness, and because some countries were slow to approve its sale...at least 100 hemophiliacs in Hong Kong and Taiwan alone contracted AIDS after using the older product...Cutter also sold the older medicine in Argentina, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore after February 1984"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bayer-sold-hiv-risky-meds/

"Bayer just paid 'tens of millions' of dollars to end a three-decade long scandal in which the company sold HIV-contaminated blood products to haemophiliacs, thousands of whom later died of AIDS...you have to pick through the French and Italian news media to find out that Bayer is finally writing checks to people who got AIDS because, in the 1980s, the Cutter Biological unit of Bayer ignored federal law to recruit prisoners, intravenous drug users, and high-risk gay men as donors of the blood Cutter then used to make Factor VIII and IX, the clotting product that haemophiliacs need in order to not bleed to death...The reason why there have been no reports is that the hemophiliacs and their lawyers were not allowed to talk about the settlement."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bayer-admits-it-paid-millions-in-hiv-infection-cases-just-not-in-english/