"It's not just the impact of the infection itself, the fallout has lasted for decades. It's huge. It affected the lives of people's families and friends. Lots of people in the UK had no idea this was going on because people were being silenced," said Beatrice Morgan, senior associate solicitor at Leigh Day, a UK-based law firm which represented over 300 individuals during the UK infected blood inquiry.
"They were collecting blood from prisons and active drug users, many of whom were known to have hepatitis. The blood wasn't screened properly. It takes only one contaminated donation with HIV or hepatitis to contaminate a whole batch, and a batch could contain up to 40,000 other donations," said Sally-Anne Wherry, a senior lecturer in Advanced Clinical Practice.
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