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Japan: Justice served in contaminated blood scandal

Written byChris Salzberg
Posted 5 March 2008 14:00 GMT

Martin at Kurashi reports on news that the Japanese supreme court upheld a suspended prison sentence for a former health official, Akihito Matsumura, for having failed to prevent the use of HIV-contaminated blood products in the mid-1990s. Martin finishes his post with the question: “When will this debate start for real in the place where the scandal originated, the United States of America?”

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