title: Senior administrators of blood  system acquitted of criminal  charges in tainted blood tragedy.
abstract: On 1 October 2007, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice acquitted senior administrators of the blood system on charges of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and common nuisance related to the infection of haemophiliacs with HIV in 1986 and 1987. The victims, whose names were withheld due to a publication ban, had all used HT Factorate, a blood coagulation product used to treat haemophilia and manufactured by Armour, a pharmaceutical company based in New Jersey.
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000635:transmission*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D006467:Hemophilia A / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009515:New Jersey; D009864:Ontario; D065227:Transfusion Reaction