Tainted Blood

The one story that standa out to me is a 12 or 13 yo kid from Kokomo Indiana Ryan White. He was a hemophiliac and contracted HIV/AIDS thru a blood transfusion. He was treated horribly the school he had been going to his whole life up to that point would not allow him to attend classes anymore. The way they treated him was awful. He ended up passing away. There was a movie made about it I remember watching it and my mom and dad telling me "what happened to him was not his fault, you make sure you don't ever treat someone like that. You always go against the grain and stick up for what's right. Doing so won't always be pretty or easy but it's the proper thing to do." It was sad to watch the way adults treated him they were worse than the kids just awful.

My mother was called in for testing (HIV) in the 80ies after having to have a blood transfusion after giving birth to my younger sister.
It was a terrifying time …
I live in Australia.

My brother got a blood transfusion in 82 after a bad motorcycle accident, was notified 2 months later it was bad blood. He died 10 horrible years later at 36. RIP Frankie

As an American who has donated blood, but has thankfully never needed any, I'm shocked and appalled by all the governments who allowed tainted blood to be given to people who needed it desperately. We look to our governments to protect us and keep us safe from harm. That those in power (of any nation) would willingly look away is abhorrent. Thank you for raising this issue. Hugs

I had a truly hectic and stressful day and Jile's voice and content have just made it so much better

I remember so much of this 😞

The exact same thing happened here in Canada, and the Red Cross, who was in charge of all blood products, also stopped allowing gas men to donate. They also had a class action lawsuit that was settled and the money was doled out to all survivors or their families. Many people also received tainted blood while receiving a transfusion due to accidents, surgeries or traumas.

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I found out I was pregnant in 1986. The father was a hemophiliac. I was 17 and he was 15. I was a few months along when we got a call from the hospital and they told us both we had to come in. We went, and thats when they told us he had contracted HIV through tainted blood when he was a toddler. He managed not to develop AIDS, but he did also get hepatitis C, which eventually turned to cancer and he died about 8 years ago in his forties. The baby, now my grown son, and I were tested every 6 months for years and we never did test positive. We were lucky.
Talk about survivor's guilt 😢

Who else keeps expecting to hear, "THIS IS MONSTERS" after the introduction!? 😂

Thank you for bravely covering this topic...
I have always hoped that u would...I am such a fan of your work Jiles....
Unfortunately I am SO triggered by the subject...
I'm just unable to open up on this particular video...
I do however have one piece of advice for anyone who cares to read my comment.....Question EVERYTHING when it comes to health treatments...and it's OK to ask for more information before you agree to ANYONE proceeding.
If you have doubts for any reason.... ?.. that my friend is called instinct... us humans are wired to instinctively know that SOMETHING IS WRONG.....❤

Luckily I was a toddler in the early 90's when the HIV epidemic was raging, but it must have been terrifying to know a single one night stand could mean a prolonged death or a chronic illness in the best of cases.

Love both of your channels

There's a very informative book called Blood by Douglas Starr. It was last updated in 2002, but I would still recommend it for anyone interested.

I sold plasma while I was at university, it fed me a couple times a week.

The myth of the "gay plague " was so dangerous. There's a point one of the biggest groups was teens and young adults. They thought I'm not gay so I'm safe.

That's EXACTLY what happened to my grandpa!!! He was born with hemophilia so he had to get frequent blood transfusions back in the 80s and he ended up contracting hep c from the bad blood as he called it i remember this vividly because he would even fuss me and tell me not to shave my legs with his razor because he didn't want me to get hep c.. i took care of him once he was older and i had to take proper precautions when dealing with any wounds or sores that he would have.. i never realized how big this situation was I thought it was just something that happened to him not so many other people!

Eye-opening and a reminder of something I had completely forgotten about. More fuel for my already huge mistrust of the government and health professions. Thanks.

"And the Band Played On" authored by Randy Shilts.

I was raped and infected in 1981 at 13. found out when I went to sign up for military at 17 in 1985. still here at 55 and never been sick. I've seen so many die back in the 80s and 90s. I had so many plans as a teen. I wanted lotsa kids. 😢

yessss love all the different channels so interesting and very well done!! plus the narrator’s voice is iconic

I’ve literally never heard of this - - this is crazy! Thank you for these amazing videos on such awful topics. You’re better than a history class! ❤️

Sadly, my father received a transfusion in 1970's ('72-'74) during his back surgery. He left with hepatitis. He died at 56 yo from liver cancer, after years of complications😢

Brilliantly done .

This is a pretty full-on Sinister & it's pretty upsetting 😞

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Gr8 timing..

I moved to the States in 1980 from the UK, and have only just been allowed to start donating blood this year. The fear here was we Brits might have Mad Cow Disease. Now, I'm no doctor, and I may be a mad, old cow, but I'm pretty sure if I had the disease, it would have presented and offed me decades ago!

Good morning from the UK 😊

Beauty bud!

This happened to my best friends high school friends father.
Her father went in for surgery and ended up contracting HIV. He won a lawsuit but died shortly after when the disease got worse.

Jiles to the rescue. Good mornin from Louisville, Ky

Thank you for the upload Jiles with a J! 😄

Thank you Jiles

This situation happened to one of my good friends here in canada back in the 80's. His father received a blood transfusion at the hospital and was infected with HIV from tainted blood, he then passed it on too his wife not knowing and the infection eventually turned in to AIDS which in turn took their lives. The three surviving sons were given $100,000 each around 10 to 15 years later.
R.I.P to their parents qnd R.I.P to all the people who lost their lives from this terrible situation.

Ryan white.

For anyone wondering why anyone would knowingly donate blood if they had any of these diseases, because it hasn’t been addressed, due to the fact that so few people were donating willingly, donating blood and plasma started being a paid endeavor and mostly those who are poor were going down to donate plasma. I know plenty of people who were only able to make their rent after donating plasma. Then there were those who donated because they had family and friends who were sick and could feel the pain of those who were suffering, not a one was a rich Wall Street millionaire/executive

There was at least one American company that sent their non heat-treated product to be sold in Central America. Unfortunately, greed tends to win out over decency.

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Im in kidney failure and on dialysis. I have to very occasionally receive a blood transfusion so... Yeah, this kind of shit scares the fuck out of me

I am English and as someone with B- blood, I would give an armful whenever the Blood Donation teams would come along. 9 Years ago, I moved to Ireland and because I have lived in the UK, I am not able to contribute...

I had a very close friend born with hemophilia. He was born in the late 70s and contracted Aids in the 80s from blood transfusions. He died in 2018. So sad and tragic.

I remember this oh so well and I've watched several documentaries on it you took all that information and then put it in a 20-minute video wow that is amazing I remember how many people were scared there are all kinds of causes floating around in the air you can get it from water you could get it from a toilet seat it was horrid. One of my very best friends got it through a transfusion, one of the worst things was he never got any health care or any supplements care to watch my best friend die a little bit each day breaks my heart to this day we worked in a liquor store together and there was two signs we stole one and I have it on my wall it stays on my wall I totally reminds me of the Shenanigans we used to pull

Geez Jiles --- this is some scary content!

And did everyone get their compensation??? I doubt it…

Hiya Jiles! Just in time for bed. Thank you. ❤

Here in Ohio the VA had a massive outbreak of hepatitis, and nothing was ever done. My brother in law got it there, he is a 2 time war vet ,and thats the thanks he got. Infected with Hep C . it was covered up, and they wont even pay for the cure!

Will you please cover the awful corruption 'Horizon' case. The UK, for its size, is so corrupt, the Horizon case, as with this one, are both just tips of the iceberg.

I do believe,correct me if I'm wrong,,,that donors in USA get paid to donate blood,which can point to anyone with bad life styles may be desperate for the money.Here in the UK donatIons are for free.Obviously contaminated blood affects anyone for whatever reason that is deemed necessary to be transfused.,not just Haemophiliacs.Thank you for the video,as always.

Now I don't know how it was done at the time you are talking about in the US and UK.
But I am a plasma donator in Austria and just to make it clear: If you donate plasma, that's what you are doing. You are not donating blood and they take the plasma out of it later.
The machine gets some blood out of your body, it seperates the plasma from it and you get the blood back. Then a new cycle of the same starts.
That's why you are allowed to donate plasma up to 3 times in 2 weeks.
I recently saw a case about a mother leaving her kids in a car on a hot day to go donate plasma. (kids survived) And she was at the location for hours - I do not know how that's possible, because maximum - unless something happens donating plasma takes maximum an hour here.
And then they said that she was sent to mandatory drug rehab - how was she even allowed to donate?
Before every doantion starts they do take a bit of blood and test it. You have to have regular health checks etc.
SMH other countries really need to do better. I'm not allowed to have taken even an Aspirin in the 24 hours before a donation. (And in Germany it's even a week)

I remember this☹️

It is a fact that governments all over the world make decisions that are convenient, in whatever way the case may be, at the expense of their citizens. That this calamity was finally addressed by a public enquiry is, sadly, an exception rather than the rule. At the very least, the UK government accepted some token of responsibility, which is more than can be said for many so-called first-world countries.

Sexual intercourse in Jail is not always or even often consensual. It's actually called rape.

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Better than nothing??? BETTER THAN NOTHING?? Oohhh, wait…they mean better to have patients pay for treatment, even if it might kill them, then to wholly lose that revenue. 😡😡
Do any of these doctors remember that part of their oath that says…”First, DO NO HARM”? Did they assume that was optional??🤬🤬 GTFOH!!!
Stay sane, Jiles! Your efforts are invaluable!!❤❤

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Not anymore they don’t. They literally have ads saying anybody can donate.

Oh man...........

Yet another incident to show us that we as humans never learn. We panic, and believe harmful rhetoric before we actually reach real solutions. Every. Damn. Time. 🤦🏾‍♀️

What a great topic. I stopped donating plasma because of the unfair taxation. It is essential for survival for hemophiliacs, so why is it taxed? Biological fluids for fertility are not essential, they are elective, yet not taxed. Blood is filtered through religion, then government, and what is left goes to the patient charged massive amounts of money to stay alive.

The hate crimes in the US over AIDs was and is disgusting.

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The gay community despised dr fauci back in the mid 80’s. Wonder why?

Dallas buyers club is a pretty good movie that shows the issue with saying it's a gay plague.

So why not find the proteins that are missing and inject those .

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Oh do the humidifier scandal from South Korea next!

Yet as someone who has a good blood type for plasma they won't let me give blood because of me having M.E or CFS as its also known. But I'm okay with any discomfort it may cause because it's more important to give blood but they won't let me anyway. It's not someone wrong with my blood, just to make that clear. 😔

Even vampires around da world is having a lot of problems back then in da 1970s and 1980s 😅😄😁

Paying people to donate blood is inappropriate. It is also wrong grammatically.

I clearly remember the phobia and mind set of people during this decade. 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔

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There are still restrictions on gay and bisexual men donating blood

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My whole family have rare blood ...i really should donate 😕 but i don't like needles 😢

Jiles, if this enrages you from across the pond, wait until you find out what really happened here 💔#TheRealAnthonyFauci

Prison doesn't turn men gay, when inside we just don't have sex, there's no big STI problem in there.

alternate title for this episode: who killed Laura Palmer?

The UK health service costs around 1/3 per capita of the one in place in the US. While the US healthcare system might be better it is certainly not three times better, and it is certainly not accessible to all. The UK National Health Service (NHS) is free and available to everyone. As a result it is not as robust outside of accute care, and it is necessary to weigh up the wider impact on the populace when it comes to distributing budget.
As you are an American who is demonstrably overweight, I find it bizarre that you would seek to slag off the UK health care system. A system which is paid for by tax payers, a scenario in which alcoholics, the obese, smokers, and those who make their own problems introduce additional strain.
I enjoy your content very much, and I mean no offense. I just find this particular subject very sensitive, and I find the US healthcare system (I live here now) to be completely lacking in compassion compared with the UK one (where's your welfare state then, Sir???)

Jails in Manitoba, Canada definitely hand out condoms on the reg now.

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Excuse me but drug addicts who shared dirty needles caught it too, not just homosexual and hemophiliacs.

None of that is good enough in my estimation. Every government official involved should face criminal charges.