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Companies knowingly sold virus-tainted blood products abroad, class action claims.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-AUG-03
Format: Online - approximately 673 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Bayer Corp. and three other companies have been named in a class action that could include "tens of thousands" of hemophiliacs worldwide who have been infected with HIV or hepatitis C from contaminated blood products. The other defendants are Armour Pharmaceutical Co., Baxter Healthcare Corp., and Alpha Therapeutic Corp. (Gullone v. Bayer Corp., No. CO3-2572WHA (N.D. Cal. filed June 2, 2003).)

The suit, filed in federal court in San Francisco on behalf of class members in Asia, Latin America, and Europe, claims that the companies continued to sell blood-clotting agents to foreign countries even after they knew that the products...

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