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Where and when did Bayer intentionally sell drugs that could be contaminated with HIV?

In the early 1980s in the United States, after evidence of the existence of AIDS appeared, the disease began to be registered not only in the most at risk people among homosexuals and drug addicts, but also in patients with hemophilia. It turned out that the virus was transmitted through drugs to improve blood clotting, which contained plasma from infected donors.

After the scandal erupted, Bayer and other leading pharmaceutical companies began to produce a safe, thermally processed version of the drug, but its supply began only within the country. And in Asian and Latin American countries, sales of old drugs continued for several more years, as corporations were not eager to destroy their stocks produced in large quantities.

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