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'I gave birth, and got Hepatitis C'

Some victims of the worst treatment scandal in NHS history may still be living – undiagnosed – with a life threatening disease, this programme has been told.

Thousands were infected with Hepatitis C and HIV after being given contaminated blood in the 1970s and 80s.

This programme has reported extensively on adults and children with the blood disorder haemophilia who later died.

But less is known about a second group – patients given donated blood after childbirth or an operation.

Next week a major public inquiry starts into the scandal, as Jim Reed reports.

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