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DATE: FRIDAY, October 29, 1993                   TAG: 9310290067
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: BERLIN                                LENGTH: Short

GERMANS FIND MORE TAINTED BLOOD

Germany's scandal over tainted blood supplies widened Thursday as authorities revealed that three people were infected with the AIDS virus last year by blood products made by a German company.

The UB Plasma company is accused of selling the products without first testing each unit of donated blood, as required by law. Authorities shut the plant Thursday and hospitals were told not to use any UB Plasma blood.

Disclosures about suspect blood products have been piling up since Oct. 3, when the government admitted that health officials had covered up 373 cases in which patients got contaminated blood up to 1985, the year the government began testing blood supplies for HIV, the AIDS virus.

by CNB