Denmark Orders Probe of Officials on AIDS
United Press International
COPENHAGEN —
The Danish minister for health today ordered an investigation of leading national health officials who allegedly lied about the use of AIDS-infected blood in transfusions.
Health Minister Elsebeth Kock-Petersen said she had also asked the police to investigate a medical company which processed infected blood products. Her order came after a judge’s report said that high-ranking health officials knowingly misled her predecessor by denying that unscreened donor blood had been used at hospitals.
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