Supreme Court finds red cross negligent in screening blood donors.
On 19 April 2001, the Supreme Court of Canada released its first judgments in litigation alleging the Canadian Red Cross Society was negligent for inadequately screening blood donors in the early 1980s. It upheld an order that damages in the amount of over $2.5 million be paid to three individuals who contracted HIV between 1983 and 1985 from contaminated blood.
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D015492:AIDS Serodiagnosis / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D001782:Blood Donors; D002170:Canada; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000097:blood / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012011:Red Cross