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THIS week, people who were given contaminated blood while schoolchildren in the 1970s and ’80s have been giving evidence at a public inquiry. They were sufferers of haemophilia and were pupils at Treolar’s College, which had an NHS treatment centre to provide them with specialist care. As part of that care, many were infected with viral hepatitis or HIV, and died.
In a response to injury in somebody without haemophilia, an intricate set of protein reactions are set off within the blood. Proteins that normally circulate in blood freely bond together to change the consistency and stop the bleeding, producing a clot. There are several important proteins or “factors” involved in the clotting.