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Dr Michael Rodell told a standing committee advising the US Secretary of State of Health and the Commissioner of the FDA that, on average, persons who were paid for their plasma had it collected between 40 and 60 times per year.

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Dr Michael Rodell presented to a standing committee advising the US Secretary of State of Health and the Commissioner of the FDA and suggested that four infected persons could contaminate the entire world supply of Factor 8 concentrate.

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The Medical Research Council produced a brief on AIDS in which it said: "Over the last six months the possibility of transmission by blood transfusion has become increasingly apparent...An infectious agent has therefore been implicated which is sexually, parenterally and even perinatally transmitted with a long asymptomatic infectious incubation period...Transmission of AIDS by transfusion and blood products may become a serious problem."

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The first known death in the UK of a person with haemophilia with AIDS was recorded. The person died at the start of September 1983, having been unwell since he received commercial concentrate some months earlier.

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The UKHCDO held its annual general meeting, and despite the death which was widely reported in the national press, Professor Bloom felt able to address a suggestion that patients should revert to having cryoprecipitate by saying that "he felt that there was no need for patients to stop using the commercial concentrates because at present there was no proof that the commercial concentrates were the cause of AIDS."

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The New England Journal of Medicine published a report titled "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Associated with Transfusions".

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Professor Robin Weiss of University College London wrote in Nature that: "There no longer seems to be any doubt that AIDS is caused by an infectious agent": the overload of foreign protein theory did not explain why single transfusions could transmit AIDS, nor how infants acquired infections from affected mothers. He commented that: "ELISA [enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay] screening tests for blood banks are urgently needed".

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A Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report titled "AIDS: the Early Years and CDC's Response" was published.

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"Contaminated Blood: What did the Netherlands do differently? Factor 8" was published.

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"Surviving hemophilia: A road trip through the world of healthcare" was published.

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The Mail on Sunday published an article titled "The Scandal of Peter Palmer's Death".

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The Terrence Higgins Trust was founded.

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Dr James Smith of the Plasma Fractionation Laboratories provided a written statement to the Penrose Inquiry in relation to viral inactivation in the period up to 1985.

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In the course of his judgment, Lord Justice Gibson said: "The plaintiffs have set out, in my judgment, a prima facie case to the effect that the Department knew or should have known of the risk to the plaintiffs from the use of concentrate obtained from suppliers in the United States".

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A meeting was held by the UKHCDO to discuss the HIV Haemophilia litigation.

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The number of claims by people with haemophilia for compensation in Scotland was 29.

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David Watters of the Haemophilia Society wrote to Kenneth Clarke, Secretary of State for Health, stating that the £10 million which had been given to the Macfarlane Trust was not enough.

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The first of a number of versions of a statement of claim in the HIV Haemophilia litigation was served.

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Richard Gutowski was working at the Medicines Control Agency at this time. He later became the team leader of the Department of Health's blood policy team.

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Richard Gutowski sent a fax to Mike Arthur seeking to resist any form of settlement, because to settle implied an admission of liability and risked encouraging further litigation and public pressure for similar settlements out of court.

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