Whistleblowers can pay a heavy price for speaking out: they risk their jobs, their safety, their families’ safety and the fallout can continue for years to come. Shuping Wang exposed the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C due to contaminated blood in Central China in the 1990s. Wang died last week of natural causes. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum has her story.
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