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Blood service collected donations from UK prisons despite infection risk warnings, documents to inquiry show

Summary by Sky News UK

Documents submitted to the Infected Blood Inquiry reveal the blood service in the UK was taking donations from British prisons up until the late 1980s, despite warnings to end the practice.

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Sky News UK

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