He is sure that the British authorities who gave tainted factor to hemophiliacs without telling them and when they knew it wasn’t safe are stalling. They just have to wait sixteen more years and all the infected will be dead, of hep C or complications from HIV, of tainted plasma protein products or what he calls “manky blood.” It’s just math now. But they’re not gone yet. And they’re not done with wanting to know why something that was supposed to be safe, and that was supposed to give them life, gave them death instead. So “for that last little bit,” says Bruce, in his unsettlingly quiet
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