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Dr John Craske wrote a letter to haemophilia centre directors explaining the CDC believed that the incubation period for AIDS could be five years. He provided lists of batch numbers of Factor 8 used over the previous five years by two patients who were subsequently diagnosed with AIDS. Blood samples were requested from patients who had received those batches of Factor 8.

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Dr John Craske wrote a letter to haemophilia centre directors noting that facilities for testing HIV were "in short supply", so it was decided that further investigations should focus on those with clinical features suggestive of AIDS and on prospective studies involving batches of Factor 8 "possibly contaminated" with HIV.

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Dr John Craske produced a paper making recommendations for the future monitoring of infections transmitted by Factor 8 and 9 concentrates.

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The Medical Ethics Expert Group was asked if there were circumstances in which it would be ethical for a clinician to withhold a test result from a person with capacity. The approach of the Medical Ethics Expert Group to the Inquiry was that the patient's autonomy should be respected.

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Dr Colin Entwistle, director of the Oxford Blood Transfusion Centre, described an "ad hoc system" in place for carrying out investigations into HIV as this was "not a regular routine activity. On the other hand, obviously, when a positive case turned up, it would be necessary to go back and see what we can find by way of further information about the same donor."

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Dr Patricia Hewitt gave evidence on the lookback steps undertaken by the North London Blood Transfusion Centre. She stated the Centre "would pursue it until we had an outcome".

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Dr Jack Gillon gave evidence to the Inquiry describing that "the biggest problem by far" of the HIV lookback was missing hospital records or the failure to have a record of where the blood component went: "it made it impossible to trace quite a substantial percentage of the components."

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The Ministry of Health in association with the Scottish Home and Health Department produced "Notes on Transfusion" which set out the need to have a record of every transfusion in a patient's case notes and that it was "not always appreciated that the main reason for accurate recording is the protection of the patient."

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Dr Harold Gunson gave evidence to the House of Commons Social Service Committee about problems associated with AIDS. He referred to an example of a donation in the window period that led to HIV infection in the recipients.

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"The Guardian" published an article entitled "Blood donor passes Aids virus to baby". It reported that transfusions had been given to a mother living in Birmingham who had gone on to test positive for HTLV-3.

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Dr Harold Gunson produced a witness statement in the hepatitis litigation "A v National Blood Authority".

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Dr Marcela Contreras wrote to Dr Harold Gunson about the interpretation of data collected from anti-HIV positive blood donors, expressing concerns about the lack of feedback on the vast amount of data which was sent to Dr Tim Wallington. Dr Contreras asked Dr Gunson to urge Dr Wallington to produce a report on the HIV data as soon as possible.

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The Ministry of Health published in "The Lancet" a memorandum entitled "Homologous Serum Jaundice". It stated that reverse lookbacks had been undertaken in the UK since the 1940s in the context of transfusion-transmitted hepatitis and Hepatitis B.

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Dr Tim Wallington wrote to Dr Harold Gunson requesting feedback about the co-ordinated study of transfusion-transmitted HIV infection.

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Dr Vanessa Martlew wrote to Dr Harold Gunson, raising some concerns about the co-ordinated study of transfusion-transmitted HIV infection.

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Dr Tim Wallington wrote to Dr Harold Gunson about the co-ordinated study of transfusion-transmitted HIV infection, enclosing study documents to introduce the project and enable work to start.

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Anti-HTLV-3 tests were performed by the North Western Regional Transfusion Centre on coded serum/plasma samples from the Public Health Laboratory Service.

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Dr Janet Mortimer wrote on behalf of Dr Harold Gunson to regional transfusion directors asking for the latest information they could give on recipients of blood from a donor subsequently found to be positive. As part of the follow-up, Dr Mortimer offered to check uncontactable donors against the database at the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre.

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In a letter to Dr Harold Gunson, Dr Wallington proposed to abandon the HIV follow up study because he did not think they would learn more from it that was not being learnt from other data gathering efforts. It was stated that the data he received from the regional transfusion centres was incomplete, with some centres not having participated.

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The Expert Advisory Group on AIDS supported the continuation of the lookback study and considered that previous investigations should be pursued until two anti-HIV negative recipients had been identified.

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