Victims of Britain's tainted blood scandal speak

August 25th, 2008 By GREGORY KATZ , Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Robert Mackie trembles with rage when he describes how he and his wife were kept in the dark about his HIV infection - and how doctors published his medical data in journals years before they gave him the devastating news.

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Wonder what Michael Moore would say about this...
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