Germany-AIDS

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Germany-AIDS

Associated Press (10/20/93) (Thorson, Larry)

Berlin--A criminal investigation of federal health officials is being conducted following Germany's second scandal concerning blood products contaminated with the AIDS virus. Bruno Rautenburg, a spokesperson for Berlin's Justice Department, said that a probe is under way into allegations that the Federal Health Office allowed the release of tainted blood in 1990. Earlier this month, German Health Minister Horst Seehofer accused the agency of hushing-up 373 reports of patients who received contaminated blood up until 1985. The latest accusations, however, indicate that the infected blood may have been used even after the government mandated testing for HIV in 1985. Rautenburg said prosecutors were investigating the employees on suspicion of causing dangerous bodily harm by permitting a method of processing blood in 1990 that could lead to HIV infection.

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