Tainted blood scandal (Japan)/Definition

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Tainted blood scandal (Japan) [r]: (薬害エイズ事件 Yakugai Eizu Jiken 'harmful medical side-effect AIDS scandal') Popular name for a series of media, political and legal events from the 1980s to the 1990s in Japan, resulting from the infection of up to 2,000 hameophilia patients with HIV, due to the use of non-heat-treated infected blood products in medicine.