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Dr Lane described the response to the syndrome as "the American over-reaction to the problem" and that the causative factors remained unknown. He suggested an urgent meeting to discuss strategic alternatives at BPL for manufacturing small pool freeze-dried cryoprecipitate, in anticipation of increased resistance to American products.

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The Central Blood Laboratories Authority met to primarily discuss budget and stockpiling. Professor Bloom suggested the Authority should discuss AIDS at a future meeting.

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Dr Lane, of BPL, prepared a progress report on AIDS regarding BPL's response to the possible impact of AIDS, namely a "wait and see" basis production policy for the manufacture of Factor 8 and research and development programmes in light of the AIDS concern in the USA.

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The CDC published an "Update on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) - United States" article in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, reporting 593 received reports of AIDS between June 1981 and September 1982.

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Dr Anne Smith, of the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service, received a letter from Hunter Burns & Ogg (solicitors) in relation to the Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM) to ensure the accurate recording on AIDS and to publish bulletins within the gay community.

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The Public Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre prepared an article published in the British Medical Journal titled "Surveillance of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the United Kingdom, January 1982 - July 1983".

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The film, Killer in the Village, aired on BBC2, which traced the spread of AIDS across America, and followed the search for a cause and cure, and examined whether the seeds of a spreading epidemic had already reached London.

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The Central Blood Laboratories Authority held a meeting. Professor Bloom reported that he had given a talk on AIDS to the AGM of the Haemophilia Society, and got the impression that people with haemophilia were not greatly concerned about AIDS.

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Professor Anthony John Pinching prepared a written statement for the Infected Blood Inquiry on the advent of the risk of AIDS in the 1980s.

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The Guardian reported that two haemophilia patients had contracted AIDS and bans on the import of US blood products were being considered after reports that AIDS was being spread through infected blood.

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The Daily Mail referred to AIDS as killer homosexual disease and the Daily Express called it the new killer disease.

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The Lancet reported that no definite cases of AIDS had been reported in a person with haemophilia in the UK, however one patient might have had early features of the syndrome.

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The Lancet reported a data case of AIDS in a person with haemophilia who had received intensive treatment with Factor 8 concentrate of US origin.

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At a meeting of the haemophilia reference centre directors regarding communication between the CDSC, Dr Craske and haemophilia centre directors, Dr Galbraith was somewhat concerned that he had not heard about the Bristol case until after the patient's death.

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A letter from Dr Wassef outlined the symptoms of a haemophilia patient, stating that clinically he exhibited some of the stigmata of AIDS.

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In his statement to the Inquiry, Joseph Peaty questioned why Dr Wassef, a doctor who he and his mother trusted, had reassured his mother about the safety of the treatment he was receiving while knowing there were issues the entire time.

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Dr Wassef informed Dr Morag Chisholm at Southampton Hospital in a letter that a pupil exhibited some of the stigmata of AIDS.

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Dr Wassef informed a pupil's home clinician that clinically he exhibited one of the stigmata of AIDS in that he had lost 3kg in body weight.

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In an end-of-term letter to a pupil's home clinician, Dr Wassef said that the pupil did not exhibit the stigmata of AIDS apart from that he had lost 5kg in weight and had enlarged lymph nodes.

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In a letter to Dr Chalmers, Dr Wassef confirmed AIDS investigations were being undertaken on a pupil, that he exhibited no stigmata of AIDS apart from losing 2kg in weight and that they had undertaken AIDS-related tests.

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