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Cry Bloody Murder: A Tale of Tainted Blood |
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If you are not made of wood, tears will stain most every page of your copy of this book. Elaine DePrince is a housewife and mother of five, two of whom died of AIDS when they were young boys. They were hemophiliacs who were exposed to HIV via their use of contaminated blood-clotting products. This is the story of their brief lives and of their mother's fight against a health care cum legal system that allows pharmaceutical companies to rush their blood products to market without fear of product liability lawsuits, a system that made their unnecessary deaths possible. What makes the story all the more affecting is that the two boys were very bright and well aware of the whole awfulness of their tragedy. Just try reading the eleven-year-old Cubby DePrince's "64 Reasons Why You Do Not Want to Get AIDS" (Reason #64: "You wonder if people will still remember you after you are dead.") while holding to the belief that the FDA and the state legislatures and the blood banks and the drug companies are doing a good job.
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