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People who received blood transfusions in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s may have been infected with Hepatitis and HIV because donor screening only began in 1991. However it was recently revealed that efforts to inform these patients have fallen short, resulting in delay of treatment and the risk of passing on the infections. 
 
Hepatitis infections sometimes take as much as twenty years to show symptoms, but then may result in severe liver damage and cancer. 
 
Lawyers representing about 30,000 infected patients claim that only 15% of them were contacted by officials, the remainder learning of their disease by regular medical examinations.

Tainted blood victims 'were not informed'

The Observer - 4/29/2006 7:17 PM

Concerns about Britain's contaminated blood scandal escalated yesterday after it emerged that thousands of people who were infected with hepatitis C have still not been informed.
 
The Observer has obtained evidence from solicitors representing scores of victims which appears to confirm claims that efforts to trace those infected with the deadly virus from transfusions and blood products were 'restrictive, passive and inadequate'. It has also emerged that no efforts were made to contact relatives of those who died as a result of the disaster despite the fact they could have unknowingly passed it on. The virus can lie dormant for over 20 years, but then lead to severe liver damage and cancer.
 
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