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Japan Police Raid Firm at Center of AIDS Scandal

Reuters (08/21/96)
Eckert, Paul

Abstract: The offices of Green Cross, a Japanese drug company implicated in the country's tainted blood scandal, was raided by public prosecutors Wednesday. The raid was the first police action against the companies that distributed HIV-infected blood products to hemophiliacs in the mid-1980s, leaving about 2,000 hemophiliacs infected with the virus. The action was in response to a lawsuit charging Renzo Matsushita, a former Green Cross president, with negligence in the AIDS-related death of a patient. Green Cross and four other drug companies reached a settlement with 400 HIV-infected hemophiliacs in March, and took responsibility for failing to prevent the spread of the virus when the risk had been known.


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