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"It's going to make a tremendous difference," said Mike McCarthy, a 47-year-old former nurse who is also a past vice-president of the Canadian Hemophilia Society. "It's going to protect my wife, it's going to protect my kids, it's going to protect my bills I have at home.
"It's wonderful," said Esther Coppens, whose husband George contracted hepatitis C from blood transfusions more than a decade ago. "It's been a long time coming."It wouldn't have happened at all if victims hadn't put pressure on government, said Antonio Raimondo, whose wife Anna has been sick since the 1990s. Doctors also traced her infection back to a blood transfusion from 1976. "We fight (for this) for a long time," said Raimondo, president of a hepatitis C patient-support group called the Hepatitis C Resource Centre.See the full content of this document
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$1b for Forgotten Blood Victims
By Allison Hanes
CAMBRIDGE, Ont. -- The forgotten victims of Canada's tainted blood tragedy were finally acknowledged yesterday as Prime Minister Stephen Harp...See the full content of this document
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