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The Observer reported on the link between AIDS and blood, noting that AIDS had been identified in a small group of US haemophiliacs treated with concentrates.

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The Observer carried two articles: one headed Killer disease alert over gay blood donors and the other headed The epidemic spreads.

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The Working Party on Post-Transfusion Hepatitis identified a number of problems relating to NANBH that needed investigation.

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Dr Craske presented a paper on AIDS to the Medical Research Council Hepatitis Vaccine Working Group.

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Sir Henry Yellowlees confirmed that the MRC had not established a Working Party nor were they considering any research on AIDS.

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The MRC Working Party noted there was evidence from haemophiliacs showing some Scottish Factor 8 had been contaminated with HTLV-3. They also discussed whether it was unethical to inform patients who were HTLV-3 positive.

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The MRC Working Party discussed contact tracing of blood donations from AIDS patients.

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At the first Working Party on Post-Transfusion Hepatitis meeting, the terms of reference were recorded as: "To consider the feasibility of carrying out a survey on the incidence of post-transfusion hepatitis and to arrange for any such survey".

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The MRC's Blood Transfusion Research Committee was established.

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The MRC's Blood Transfusion Research Committee was reconstituted to deal with problems concerned with dried blood and its products.

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The MRC's Blood Transfusion Research Committee was reconstituted and the Cryoprecipitate Working Party and the Post-Transfusion Hepatitis Working Party was set up.

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The Working Party on the Use of Factor IX Concentrates for Conditions other than Christmas Disease was set up.

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The MRC's Blood Transfusion Research Committee originated in the 1940s, with the Committee being reconstituted from time to time and specific working parties being set up under its auspices.

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Professor Zuckerman was pressing for a meeting to be reconvened on the basis that "there are no data from the UK or Europe on the importance of so-called non-A, non-B viruses...When a test becomes available, it will be difficult to decide on policy in the UK unless the size of the problem is known."

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The Working Party on Post-Transfusion Hepatitis, formed in 1967, was reconstituted in view of the interest in NANBH and met on two occasions: 14 February 1980 and 25 June 1981.

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The Working Party on Transfusion-Associated Hepatitis held its second meeting. One of the matters discussed concerned studies of non-A, non-B Hepatitis.

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The Working Party on Transfusion-Associated Hepatitis held its third meeting. One of the matters discussed concerned hepatitis in people with haemophilia.

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The Reconvened Transfusion-Associated Hepatitis Working Party held its first meeting. It considered approaches to address future requests to initiate routine anti-HBc and ALT donor screening.

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North London Blood Transfusion Centre reports that donors in the high risk category were found to continue to donate blood despite the publicity about AIDS because the original DHSS leaflet had implied that homosexuals with stable partnerships were still eligible donors.

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The Advisory Committee on the Virological Safety of Blood held their first meeting.

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