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    Boy, 7, who contracted Aids in contaminated blood scandal’s last words shared by family

    by Athena Stavrou Apr 14, 2024 2 minutes
    Source: BBC/Infected Blood Inquiry

    The family of a seven-year-old boy who died as a result of the contaminated blood scandal has shared his last heartbreaking words 34 years on.

    Colin Smith contracted Aids after receiving contaminated blood at just ten months old while being treated for haemophilia.

    The young boy was infected with HIV and hepatitis C in August 1983 after being given He died in 1990, aged seven.

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