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Bayer Sold AIDS Infected Drug Overseas.

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Originally posted by: miri
Originally posted by: maziwanka
Originally posted by: miri
I used to buy Bayer products, not anymore
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you're an idiot then, just like the OP. the OP's title is ridiculously misleading. have you read the articles he's linked to? i agree with js80; there's not much of a story here...
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Its not misleading and your the fvcking idiot
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hahaha.. you win!
 
Wow, I'm boycotting Bayer for life now just for principles... I can't believe a company did that and still put on the face saying they acted ethically...

People died because of it. If they wouldn't treat their own family w/ the drug they probably shouldn't sell it to others... and to less developed countries where they believed they could've gotten away w/ it too... wow. Sometimes I really wish that there is karma or that there is a hell waiting for people like this...
 
Originally posted by: DaveCSparty
Wow, I'm boycotting Bayer for life now just for principles... I can't believe a company did that and still put on the face saying they acted ethically...

People died because of it. If they wouldn't treat their own family w/ the drug they probably shouldn't sell it to others... and to less developed countries where they believed they could've gotten away w/ it too... wow. Sometimes I really wish that there is karma or that there is a hell waiting for people like this...
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there was no method of screening for HIV back then
 
After reading the article and about half of the replies, I have come to the conclusion that most of you people did not read the article before posting.
 
Originally posted by: Rastus
After reading the article and about half of the replies, I have come to the conclusion that most of you people did not read the article before posting.
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A division of the pharmaceutical company Bayer sold millions of dollars of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs - medicine that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS - to Asia and Latin America in the mid-1980s while selling a new, safer product in the West.

The Bayer division, Cutter Biological, introduced its safer medicine in late February 1984, as evidence mounted that the earlier version was infecting hemophiliacs with HIV.

Yet for more than a year, it continued to sell the old medicine overseas, prompting a United States regulator to accuse Cutter of breaking a promise to stop selling the product.

By continuing to sell the old version of the life-saving medicine, documents show, Cutter was trying to avoid being stuck with large stocks of a product that was increasingly unmarketable in the US and Europe.

Yet even after it began selling the new product, the company kept making the old medicine for several months more. A telex from Cutter to a distributor suggests one reason: the company had several fixed-price contracts and believed the old version would be cheaper to produce.

Nearly 20 years later, the precise human toll of these marketing decisions is difficult, if not impossible, to document.
 
Originally posted by: DasFox
Bayer sells AIDS infected drug overseas.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS3mhjt7TrY&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/22/health/main555154.shtml

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/5-22-2003-40684.asp

P.S. PLEASE KEEP THIS BUMPED, PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS, AND PLEASE REPORT THIS TO YOUR LOCAL NEWS.
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what an alarmist :roll:

this happened over 20 years ago. the guilty party was sued.

the way you've posted it looks like this is happening RIGHT NOW.

 
moshquerade, yes we have already gone over this. I later said I was talking about the video Joe Scarborough was on, he was not around 20 years ago, I'm talking about what he's reporting, which is not 20 years ago, that was done I believe in 2003.

ALOHA

P.S. Yes, Yes either way it's old news. But then again, there maybe alot of people that never heard about it 🙁
 
cant remember where i heard this, but bayer also tested their medicine on victims of the holocost.

all i know is i'm not buying bayer.
 
Originally posted by: MrX8503
cant remember where i heard this, but bayer also tested their medicine on victims of the holocost.

all i know is i'm not buying bayer.
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I heard they smash up puppies to make alleve..........🙁

I'm not buying bayer either..........

 
I am just baffled that Bayer knew that these products were infected, but chose to deny it and sell it anyway to people overseas only because if they sold it here in the states they would get quite a tongue lashing from the American people. In my opinion $600 million is not enough to compensate for peoples' lives.
 
Originally posted by: logic1485
Why only the Americans? Isn't Bayer an international company? I think that's unfair.

note: not viewed video yet since I don't have sound at the moment.
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German, I thought.
 
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