Doctors not to blame over HIV infection by tainted blood

摘要

A Canadian court has acquitted four doctors and a US blood products company of criminal negligence in the case of four haemophiliacs who were infected with HIV after receiving transfusions of tainted blood in the 1980s. After a five-year police investigation and a lengthy trial that involved more than 100 witnesses and 1,000 exhibits, Judge Mary Lou Benotto of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto effectively said that the doctors and the company were not only acquitted but fully exonerated.