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Infection

Bed of Lies

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Hemophylia - Factor Eight

People with hemophylia lack a protein in their blood called factor eight. In the sixties, scientists disc vered a way to divide plasma from red blood cells. They found that if you spin the plasma at a high speed, you can separate it into its different parts. And one of the things you get is factor eight. So they made a concentrated form, which became a revolutionary treatment for hemophyliacs and they called that factor eight too. But there was something deadly in factorat, and it started to infect the very people it was meant to help. Some had started to die; panic set in across medical establishment. Back then, so little was known about the

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