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NEW BOOK REVEALS TAINTED BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS IN CHICAGO
ARE LINKED TO THE WORLDWIDE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC
Dateline: June 20, 2007 ... Chicago, IL
Contact: Sarah Mack
Phone: (219) 512-0392
E-Mail: sarah_mack@sbcglobal.net
Web Address: www.ghostsofhollandale.com
CHICAGO, IL - June 20, 2007 - After author Elvis Slaughter´s mother
died, a series of eerie events gave him reason to doubt her doctors´
diagnoses. He investigated and discovered that a recall of blood
tainted with HIV, hepatitis and leukemia was delayed for years.
Slaughter´s mother had apparently been a victim of this massive cover-
up involving physicians, blood suppliers and others. She and thousands
of other victims received this tainted blood. These botched blood
transfusions are linked to the worldwide HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The author believes the Illinois Department of Public Health delayed
its investigation of his mother´s death and the tainted blood recall.
There also appears to be a link between the FDA recall time and a
lawsuit hearing before the Illinois Supreme Court. The FDA ordered the
blood recall in 1996, but it wasn´t announced publicly in Chicago
until 1998. Slaughter´s book reveals that in December 1996, when the
recall should have been announced, a case concerning the blood company
responsible for the tainted blood transfusions was being heard at the
Illinois Supreme Court. He believes if the recall was announced timely
by the blood company and hospitals as directed in the Consent Decree,
the Illinois Supreme Court may have rendered a different opinion that
could have set precedent on tainted blood transfusions cases and
awarded 2.14 million dollars to the plaintiff. Furthermore, the two-
year announcement delay voided recourse because the statute of
limitation for prosecution of the blood company and hospitals had
already expired for most of the victims. In 1998, when the recall was
made pubic, it was under former Governor of Illinois, George Ryan´s
administration. Slaughter is wondering why little or no effort was
made to properly investigate his mother´s death and the other tainted
blood transfusion victims by the Illinois Department of Public Health.
George Ryan has since been found guilty of corruption by a Federal
Jury in an unrelated matter, in which he is appealing.
In Ghosts of Hollandale, author Elvis Slaughter reveals this tragic
story with specific details of the roles these individuals played and
how thousands of innocent people fell victim to this horrific
predicament. Slaughter has assumed the role of public activist to
expose this wrong-doing and hopes to one day be able to help victims
and their heirs receive financial compensation and have closure.
Ghosts of Hollandale (ISBN 978-1-4196-6229-4) is available at
Amazon.com, BookSurge Publishing Company (phone 1-866-308-6235),
www.ghostsofhollandale.com and can be ordered at most major book
stores.
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