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Show DAILY Sunday, August 24, 2008 HERALD A7 he possessed, his fighting spirit returned-- He gave in. to Alices pleas and started, to take the new drugs after she convinced him they were not poison. ... The drugs worked. Mack-i- e said they at first caused a dangerous reaction that left him out of his head but eventually gave him more and confidence. ' Despite being weak from AIDS and Hepatitis C, which he found out he had in 2000, Mackie insisted on giving evidence to the r Archer committee last year. The hearings were closed ; to the public but a report is , expected next month. Alice read most of his ' statement, and he spoke " quietly When he spoke at all, but he did raise hi voice at one point to tell the committee that doctors had' endangered the safety of u his wife and son by holding back his Hl.V status. I believe nOnconsensual research was cqnducted by doctore of hemophilia in this country, he said, voice booming again, We were ' all used as lab rats. The Mackies say they are not. expecting much from the new investigations. But Andrew March, a in London who became HIV positive when he was nine after exposure to tainted blood plasma products, saidthesurviving victims want the truth to finally be' told. ; I feel singer alot of thie. , , time, said MarcoVhlkia now 34 and generally free of AIDSsymptoms. Frus- tration. A sense bf being ' repeatedly betrayed. There are lessons to be learned .. that haven't been learned . Gregory Katz THE associated press " .t ;j$ : J obert Mackie tremble with V. ' ' ...' wt rage when he ' describes how' ' i 'V: he and his wife : j, were kept in the dark about his HIV infection and -how doctors published his medical data in journals ' years before they gave him the devastating news. " F--t ISs'S Mackie is one of some 5,700 British hemophiliacs who received tainted blood and were infected with .. Srf HIV, hepatitis or both, in what has been viewed as one of the worst treatment disasters in the history of Britain's heath care system. - ; Nearly a third of those in' fected have since died, Tainted blood scandals have been investigated in throughout the world France, Canada, Japan' and elsewhere leading v , to some convictions of health officials and many compensation packages for. infected hemophiliacs, but .: there has been nodetailed jprobe in Britain until now. One inquiry under way will likely end in a nonbinding .. repeat, while the other is an . official investigation by the Scottish government that ; could lead to charges filed SCOTT HEPKliyAssociated Pres against individuals., Robert tAackia speaks during an Interview In Peebles, Scotland, on on July. 31, 2007. Mackie is one of tome 5, 700 British They used me as a guinea pig, said Mackie, hemophiliacs who received tainted blood and were infected with HV, hepatitis or both, in what has been viewed as one of the 58. in his house in Scotland, .worst treatment disasters in the history of Britain's heath care system. Nearly a third of those infected have since died.- .. "Its just a miracle my wife wasnt infected. for further study because V the hospital, said it would ing to da-- But you could say Hemophiliacs suffer from breakthrough when he got an inherited disorder that .our whole lives stopped. . Scotland produced its own his first treatment in 1980. .;. be inappropriate to com But the risks were hight The tainted blood led ment while the inquiries are Factor VIII and seemed tp prevents blood from clot- - ; : an active to the deaths of Mackies. ? have an AIDS-fre- e donor ; '.With each dose, blood; .. . ting. Mackie ongoing. Two of Mackie's uncles sportsman who had hoped '' cousin; two uncles and .plasma from thousands of , community.',.. to become a salmon fishing Mackie said tlmt in 1985 and a cousin were Also friends, who were part of a 'i donors was introduced info; dose-kni- t controlled under Ludlam's his his system. Between 2,500 had when he was already .' ; guide community of he care. They learned they had infected but didnt know k donors contrib 1o22,000 hemophilia with a treatment Xmophiliacs in Scotland. ;. ' Ludlam wrote to goiern.--. called cryoprecipit atewhen From 87, all we saw uted to each batch of Factor beeif infected around the i 1980 was people dying, said he switched in ment authorities, seeking sariie time. All three sue-.- . toa VlII, which could then treat new product, Called Factor efhics approval to Study tfte ' cumbed fairly quickly.1 The Alice, her .hair white at 51. ., : about 10Q patients. - The1 contamination risk : VIII, it was And believe me, when . immune system of infected family held three funerals , supposed to.be more effective in helping increased as the number in two years. ; you see someone dying of patients and claimed that .. ' his : of donors grew, but it was his blood clot. Mackie was convinced AIDS, it's ireally bad It's patients knew about the. In 1983, he heard hemo- - . different each time, No One : would be next. : only once AIDS emerged as ' research and had agreed to dies the same way. a global public health threat philiacs were developing " Surprisingly, he stayed participate,..,, Mackie said he was told that doctors learned how . AIDS, then a mysterious If, as the ethics applica- - ' relatively healthy for a of his infection in 1987. tion form states; consent was. disease that usually claimed decade. He t bought he had risk that great ; its victims in two or three But he told an independent. was oblained from all sub1983, escaped a deathxentence, ,By .: 1 did ; 1997. his appetite be; is in had ... but commission established how that it that that inquiry experts jects .year..-. He said he asked his doc'. when he finally obtained hie not know about my AIDS AIDS previously concen-- . gan to wane; By 200Q, he V status until 1987? he. said at medical records, he learned tors if he could be exposed trated among gay men had advanced symptoms of .. ' - to the killer virus he had been used for an was striking hemophiliacs. ; . the hearing. I did not know AIDS. He became too weak through ' ' In Aprill983,anAmeri-his use of Factor VIII, a to climb stairs.Hie smell of. AIDS study that began sevanything about his studies can doctor wrote. in The1 ' food sickened him. Doctors eral years before then. or research;" relatively new blood plasma said he had a few weeks .. Mackie obtained copies this AIDS study was. . Lancet medical journal ask-- . . product made from blood ' of the form submitted by : it. seems, the beginning of collected from thousands of left, but he was too stub--. ing for data bn hemophiliIn acs in of which donors. Ludlam and too Suspicious the where areas research doctw ; there born, , many years about doctors, to take the' was no reported HIV in the says his patients were well .They told him not to being carried out on ttie blood donor.commiinity, informed atxwt his studies. ' , hew without my knowledge or worry, A year later, he was drugs , tluit were by then extend infected by a contaminated The journal published a Ludlam, who practices consent, he toldthe inquiry at the Royal Infirmary of ... committee headed by Lord , .'.batch.,ing the lives of many AIDS ., response one month later v We could have had more from Mackie's physician, patients! Archer, a fwiner solicitor Edinburgh, declined, to talk ' Dr. Christopher Luduun..: For days he sat. feverish, with The Associated Press of a family, says Alice general. ' a was. in his kitchen, believing; , who case. In meant Factor son about the had the with Mackie, letter, published yill Robert before he became Brian Montgomery; a death was imminent.: .; to thicken blood so fhat it " ' on May 28, 1983, Ludlam I hcn, infected. The two of us had : would clot properly, and National Health Service . described his own patients drawing On reserves he did not know Mackie was told it was a executive who oversees planis for what we were go as a valuable resource . . -- - v; v.r..-- jf' ... j? . vaJ vv te: . - J aH- 'ft - . . . . . . : . . . - . . . : . . . ! . , . ,.- . . . : . - . . . yet.", : . . . ' : . . . this . - . : . . . . : 1 . : . . . : . ; . . . .. . . i ts Your Furnace Ready NOW i before it J gets cold! ! '. C. He said doctors had aii .. obligation to tell Mackie, ; and othef victims, that they were HIV positive iro they. .. could take steps t o protect ' ". X their partnere. ;.; ' was a yery high i death rate said James, who hopes the inquiries will ; lead to a financial settle- - .' ment for the victims as well as a public apology. These' J people have faced enor- mous financial and emot ion-- 1 al hardships from this catas- trophie and thc deserve to ! know what happened and .. ; why and tobe sure it will ' never happen again. '. - A . . . ill-- ., ; nesses.' :' Christopher James; chief ; executive of. the Haemo- phiKa, Society, said a gen- -' eration of hemophiliacs was exposed tO.HIV and Hcpa ' . , .. . - : He said ihe slightest cold makes himwonder how long his immune system .wlllbeable to fightoff . . . CALL For Winter?! i ! : ; ; : THE ASSOCIATE!? okl man with what authorities say is a long history of driving offenses, hit SanzWhen she PKSS NEW YORK An infant boy delivered prematurely after was crossing a Bronx street bn his traffic agent mother was her lunch break. The impact struck by a van and pinned un- sent her flying into the path erf der a bus has died, authorities a yellow school bus, which ran said Friday. her over. About 30 bystanders Bren Michael Justin Sana had , helped hoist the 54on bus from been in intensive care since he her body in a rescue that made the front pages of the city's tablwas delivered by Caesarean section shortly after a runaway oid newspapers. ' V' He meant everything to van hit his mother or Aug. 14. He weighed 3 pounds, 8 ounces me," Rafael Sanz said of his .. at bath. tiny son. He died in my arms. His mother, traffic agent Sanz had harsh words for the vans driver, Walter Walker: I Doiuiette Sanz, survived the delivery but died about an hope he really does rot in helL I : hour later in an emergency hope he dies a horrible death. . spoke about how his deep love for his son was mingled with grief over his wife's death. He said she had donated a kidney to him shortly before their wed- ding tour years aga She never got to see air baby, but she was in love with him, he said. Donnette Sanz had been a d- vilian member of the NYPD for two years. .. 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