Curtis Brandell has witnessed the horrors of Canada’s tainted blood scandal, the country’s worst public health disaster, firsthand.
Two of his uncles suffered from hemophilia, a genetic disorder in which the blood doesn’t clot normally, and were infected with both HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated blood during the height of the crisis in the 1980s. One died. The other has been housebound for 25 years.
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