GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Contaminated Haemophilia Blood Products, Bruno Latour, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
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Once believed to only afect gay men, anyone who was homosexual or a woman would remain unafected. Aids timeline: 1982 that the disease irst acquired its name aids. 853 people in us were dead from aids: 1983 irst linked to hiv. Paris doctors found the virus responsible (hiv) Spread by transmission of bodily luids from one person to another. Aids was the presence of the terminal symptoms (hiv was the virus) The body"s own immune body was attacking the body system: 1985 irst approved test to determine it presence, 1987 untested blood products used in canada until 1987, factor 8. Lead to the krever commission (1993-97) (2000 people contact hiv- The result was that the license to collect blood was taken away. People were charged and convicted of criminal negligence: 1987 azt antiretroviral medication. Kept people at the hiv stage so that they would not get aids: mid 1990s, protease inhibitor cocktails. Radically slows down the disease (doesn"t cure it)
