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The co-ordinator of the Haemophilia Society wrote to the Medical Advisory Panel of the Society to say that a group would be meeting with Geoffrey Finsberg to seek assurance that there would be no immediate ban on the importation of US blood products.

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A special meeting of UKHCDO reference centre directors noted that there was insufficient evidence to warrant restriction of the use of imported concentrates in other patients in view of the immense benefits of therapy and that the situation would be kept under constant review.

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Measures were taken in the US to reduce the risk posed by the concentrates made there.

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The FDA had licensed Hyland Laboratories to market dry-heated concentrate.

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A report of the Committee of Experts on Blood Transfusion and Immunohaematology meeting concluded that although "Absolute proof that AIDS is caused by a transmissible infectious agent is not yet available", nonetheless, "the consensus in the Committee was that it should be regarded as such ".

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The directors of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service prepared a leaflet regarding the risk of AIDS, identifying people with haemophilia as being amongst the classes of those who could get AIDS.

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The Council of Europe followed the recommendations of the Committee of Experts on the risk of AIDS.

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Transfusion International, a journal directed at transfusionists, observed in an editorial by an eminent physician that there was relatively strong evidence indicating that AIDS may be transmitted by blood.

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The Committee on Safety of Medicines Sub-Committee on Biological Products decided not to recommend that imports be suspended.

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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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