Blood product suspected of spreading hiv in China

China's top health authority banned has ordered the country's hospitals to eliminate the 12.200 bottles containing blodplasmapreparatet. The specimen is made of Shanghaiföretaget Xinxing, that counts as one of the nation's largest manufacturers.

The patients who have received the specimen put under surveillance. So far, do not know the authorities how many people who have been treated with the preparation. It all came to light when blodprodukten in the tests proved to contain antibodies against the disease. In other words, blood which is infected by hiv have been used in the preparation.

on blodplasmapreparatet have indicated that there is no contamination. Despite the continuing authorities to investigate blodprodukten.

”In the spirit to be very responsible for the people, it is the local authorities responsibility to do follow-up observations of the relevant patients, and collaborate with the state drug administration,” it says in a report published by Xinhua, the chinese government's official news agency.

suffered multiple chinese villages of aids. Among other things, in the provinces of Henan, Shanxi and Anhui. Contractors collected the blood in the local villages, and, in exchange, got the villagers paid for their donation.

Later it turned out that the needles were unclean which caused several deaths among the donors. Among other things, in the village of Wenlou, in Henan province, was 678 persons infected with hiv, of whom 200 had died by 2015, according to the Daily Mail.

since Then, the standard of products has improved. Likewise, carried out the chinese government for stricter rules for bloddonation after that the villages affected by aids. Although there are many chinese suspicious ochr worried about the risks of infection.

today, live approximately 820.000 people living with hiv or aids in China. Only in the second quarter of 2018, the figure rose by 40,000 new cases, according to the BBC.

Read more: So it is to age with hiv.