Word: hemophiliac
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...year-old former Episcopal minister, Massie has made health care a major issue in his campaign. He has said his own history, as a hemophiliac who acquired the virus which causes AIDS from a contaminated blood transfusion, has made him more sensitive to health issues...
Massie, a hemophiliac, is HIV-positive due to ablood transfusion, though his immune system isfine at the moment and poses no problem to hiscandidacy, he says...
...AIDS has muted much of the progress that had been made in treating hemophilia. In the U.S. in 1979, the typical hemophiliac could expect to live until 57. But by 1985, when tests were developed to protect the blood supply, more than half of all Americans with hemophilia had been accidentally infected with the AIDS virus. Their average life-span has dropped to 40 years...
...chapter of surpassing sadness and chilling detail, Radzinsky uses the commander's testimony for a moment by moment re-enactment of the July night. At 2 a.m. Yurovsky roused the sleeping family and led them downstairs. Nicholas carried his ailing, hemophiliac son, Alexei; Alexandra and her four daughters followed, accompanied by the four family retainers who were all that remained of a retinue of hundreds...
Whatever the reasons, the secrecy and delays produced catastrophic results. Because of the tainted transfusions, nearly half of France's 3,000 hemophiliacs were infected with the AIDS virus; 200 of them subsequently developed the disease, and 180 have died. "It was criminal of them to leave the nonheated blood on the market," says Jean-Yves Lesne, whose two hemophiliac sons received HIV-contaminated blood products. "I am in the food industry, and if this had happened there, they would be in jail...