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The same issue carried an item on page 31 reporting the infection of haemophiliacs with HIV-contaminated blood products in France, Germany, Canada and Spain, and the delayed withdrawal of unheated factor VIII in the United States.

Claim ID claim-blood-1994-same-issue-contaminated-bloodConcerns 22 May 1994Context
Context · 22 May 1994 Verified

The same issue carried an item on page 31 reporting the infection of haemophiliacs with HIV-contaminated blood products in France, Germany, Canada and Spain, and the delayed withdrawal of unheated factor VIII in the United States. Awake!, 22 May 1994

The organisation’s position or later explanation: The item is sourced to The Boston Globe, Guardian Weekly, The Globe and Mail, The Medical Post, The New York Times and Dateline NBC, and the events it describes are matters of public record in each country.

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Awake!, “Contaminated Blood Given to Hemophiliacs”

22 May 1994 · p.31 · pars. 1-6 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.

“BLOOD has become a two-billion-dollar-a-year business. The pursuit of profits from it has resulted in a gigantic tragedy in France. HIV-contaminated blood caused the death of 250 hemophiliacs in AIDS-related illnesses, with hundreds more infected.”

A further item in the same issue, on page 31, summarising the contaminated-blood scandals in France, Germany, Canada and Spain and the United States factor VIII warnings, citing The Boston Globe, Guardian Weekly, The Globe and Mail, The Medical Post, The New York Times and Dateline NBC.

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Confidence note. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording, page marker and paragraph confirmed against the article text.

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Notes. Read with the two feature articles and the page 13 box, the issue devotes fourteen of its thirty-two pages to blood.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-g94d-contaminated-blood-hemophiliacs

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