PHM-Exch> Bayer, Baxter pay multimillion indemnity to haemophiliacs

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: shila kaur <kaur_shila at yahoo.com>

Press Release, January 24, 2010

Coalition against Bayer Dangers (Germany)
  Bayer, Baxter pay multimillion indemnity to haemophiliacs Settlement in
the US with victims from 22 countries / HIV infections were preventable /
“why is BAYER concealing the payments?”

The pharmaceutical companies BAYER, Baxter, Behring and Alpha are paying a
multimillion dollar compensation to haemophiliacs from 22 countries who were
infected with HIV or hepatitis C through use of blood plasma products in the
1980ies. This is the outcome of a settlement that became effective late in
2010. The settlement prohibits the victims or their lawyers from speaking
about the arrangement. Several thousand haemophiliacs had taken part in
lawsuits against the corporations.



Internal documents revealed that Bayer´s daughter company Cutter, world
market leader for blood plasma products in the 1980ies, continued to sell
contaminated preparations when it had already introduced a safer,
heat-treated version.  In August 1983 Cutter employees forsaw in
confidential papers a “gigantic epidemic" among haaemophiliacs. Nevertheless
Cutter continued to produce non-heat-treated plasma products until August
1984 and sold these until 1985. More than 10 thousand haemophiliacs paid
with their lives.



Coalition against BAYER Dangers
www.CBGnetwork.org <http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html> (in English)
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