• Who Are at Risk?
    Awake!—1986 | April 22

    • Besides homosexuals and drug abusers, another group that began to come down with AIDS was hemophiliacs​—persons who tend to bleed easily. They are commonly treated with a concentrate known as Factor VIII, made from blood plasma that is pooled from up to 5,000 different donors. The British medical journal The Lancet said that “in countries that use factor VIII concentrate from the USA the incidence is likely to increase.” Thus, it said, the percentage of German hemophiliacs reportedly having antibodies to the AIDS virus grew from zero in 1980 to 53 percent in 1984!