Contaminated C - Sections

Contaminated C-Sections and Maternity Care

Even with Anita Roddick dying, a high profile celebrity death from a c-section infection, the NHS is discouraging screening c-sections or admitting the risk. 500,000 thousand UK mothers risked hepatitis c from a c-section. The risk was 3 fold contaminated whole blood in transfusions, contaminated blood products mentioned below and also surgical strips and internal stitches used. A Single test can identify hundreds of infections, we need to test! Instead we just lose too many batch numbers and ignore alerts from victims.

FDA CONSUMER, May, 1994

Anti d Globulin intravenous removed from world market Baxter Healthcare Corporation, at the end of February, announced it was removing its immune globulin intravenous (IGIV) product Gammagard from the market worldwide because of the possibility that it may have transmitted the hepatitis virus, including hepatitis C. Baxter's IGIV is also distributed by the American Red Cross under the name Polygam.

Anti d Globulin infects over a thousand mothers in Germany Gamma globulin contains antibodies obtained from blood donors. Although intramuscular use of immune globulin has not been associated with hepatitis C in the United States, intravenous immune globulin transfusion has been implicated as a risk factor for hepatitis C. In East Germany, 14 batches of anti-D immune globulin were contaminated with hepatitis C. 1,018 East German women were injected from 1978-79 resulting in 76% hepatitis C antibody positive in a twenty year follow up study10. The relative role of immune globulin in hepatitis C transmission remains controversial. Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. military has shifted to a longer lasting hepatitis A vaccination and the role of immune globulin has been limited. FDA Consumer , May, 1994

Anti d Globulin infects over a thousand mothers in Ireland Ten years ago on this day, the Irish Blood Bank first admitted that some women may have been infected with the hepatitis C virus from contaminated Anti-D, a product given to certain women in childbirth. After a huge political controversy and two Tribunals of Inquiry the true scale of the scandal emerged and shocked the country. Full confidence in the Blood Bank has yet to be restored. Over 1,000 women were found to be infected with the hepatitis C virus. Also, hundreds of haemophiliacs were infected with both hepatitis C and HIV from products they used to try and help their blood to clot. Around 90 people have died arising from the scandal. While the Blood Bank has since been transformed and safety has improved. a voluntary reporting system remains in place, run by the Blood Bank itself. In a high profile legal battle, the chief executive of the Blood Bank was suspended in 2002 and secured a settlement when the Blood Bank decided not to pursue the case in the High Court. A docu-drama on the controversy, No Tears, was broadcast on RTE television in 2002.

Alert to Blood Transfusion Service Board - 1991

The BTSB is alerted by an English hospital to the possibility that the six 1977 women cases may be linked to its "Anti-D" blood derived agent. However, this alert is disregarded.

Source: http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0146/S.0146.199604020006.html

http://www.hepcprimer.com/xmit/gamma.html

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