Bad blood: ‘A catalog of heartbreak’

Investigators in Britain this week released an explosive report detailing how more than 30,000 UK residents contracted HIV or hepatitis from tainted blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. Survivors of the contamination and their families have welcomed new pledges of compensation. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Cara McGoogan, the author of “Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal that Altered the AIDS Crisis.”

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