'People are still dying': Lasting scars of Australia's tainted blood scandal

Australia's tainted blood scandal of the 1980s still haunts survivors today, according to ABC News. Survivor Tristan Stanley, who contracted hepatitis C as a child from contaminated blood, has uncovered government documents raising new questions about how it happened. Thousands of Australians were infected with hepatitis C or HIV in the crisis, and for many, its effects have never fully gone away.

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