首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
For someone whose life has been shattered, Hiroshi Shimizu is remarkably calm. In a cramped Tokyo law office, the subdued, bitte
For someone whose life has been shattered, Hiroshi Shimizu is remarkably calm. In a cramped Tokyo law office, the subdued, bitte
admin
2013-11-29
46
问题
For someone whose life has been shattered, Hiroshi Shimizu is remarkably calm. In a cramped Tokyo law office, the subdued, bitter man in his 30s——using an assumed name for the interview relates how he became infected with the HIV virus from tainted blood products sold by Japanese hospitals to hemophiliacs during the mid-1980s. "I was raped,"says Shimizu. "I never thought doctors would give me bad medicine."
Last year, Shimizu was shocked when a doctor newly transferred to his hospital broke the news. Four years earlier, he had asked his previous doctor if he could safely marry. "He told me: ’There’s absolutely no problem,’ even though he knew [I was infected] ," Shimizu says. "I could have passed it to my wife." Luckily, he hasn’t.
Shimizu is one of more than 2,000 hemophiliacs and their loved ones infected with the deadly virus before heat-treated blood products became available in Japan. It’s a tragedy——and now it’s a national scandal. In recent weeks, the country has been rocked by charges that Japanese drug and hospital companies kept selling tainted blood even after the AIDS threat was proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. Even worse is the charge that the Japanese government knowingly allowed this dangerous practice as part of a policy to protect domestic companies from foreign competition. Japan’s bureaucrats are already under attack for their role in the banking fiasco. As the AIDS scandal unfolds, Japanese confidence in government could erode even further. Big settlements in a related lawsuit may also set a precedent in other AIDS liability cases around the world.
The origins of the tragedy go back to 1983. By then, scientists were closing in on the virus that causes AIDS, and U.S. health authorities mandated that all blood products be heat-treated to protect hemophiliacs and patients from infection. Japanese authorities were concerned as well: the Health & Welfare Ministry formed an AIDS study group headed by the country’s foremost hemophilia expert, Dr. Takeshi Abe.
RAIN AND SLEET. What happened next has only just been revealed, thanks to an investigation by new Health Minister Naoto Kan. According to investigators, the ministry group on July 4, 1983, recommended banning untreated blood imports. Since no heat-treated products were then available from Japanese companies, the group also advised allowing emergency imports of beat-treated blood from companies such as U.S. drag giant Baxter International Inc.
But a week later, the recommendation was reversed. According to memos recovered from the records of Atsuaki Gunji, then head of the ministry’s Biological & antibiotics Div., the recommendation was overturned because it would "deal a blow" to domestic companies. Japan’s marketers of blood products bought imports of untreated blood——and they did not have their heat-treatment processes yet. The ministry insisted that Baxter conduct two years of clinical testing in Japan before it used its new heat treatment there. Domestic drug companies, led by Osaka-based Green Cross Ltd. rushed to develop their own treatment processes. Meanwhile, Baxter and other foreign companies that already sold untreated blood products in Japan had to continue the practice if they wanted to stay in the market.
The recent revelations have sparked some startling events in a country where discussion of AIDS is still largely taboo. In February, health Minister Kan made front-page news when he officially apologized to HIV-infected hemophiliacs and families who had staged a 72-house vigil in rain and sleet outside the ministry.
It can be inferred from the passage that tainted blood products are ______.
选项
A、beat-treated blood products used in the mid-1980s
B、heat-treated blood products imported from U.S. drug giant Baxter International Inc
C、untreated blood products which caused infection among hemophiliacs in Japan
D、untreated blood products produced by Baxter and some other foreign companies
答案
C
解析
根据文章可知,被感染的血液是未经处理的,所以A,B皆不正确;而文中提到,日本本国的公司也生产未经热处理的血液,所以被感染的血液并不一定是由外国公司生产的,D项也不正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/HChO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Standardusageincludesthosewordsandexpressionsunderstood,used,andacceptedbyamajorityofthespeakersofalanguagei
BetweentheinventionofagricultureandthecommercialrevolutionthatmarkedtheendoftheMiddleAges,wealthandtechnology
Millionsofindividualsallaroundtheworldareinovertheirheadsindebt.Debtcanturnanindividualortheirfamily’slife
Everybodywastestime.Insteadofdoinghishomework,theschoolboywatchestelevision.Insteadofwritingheressay,thestuden
IhadvisitedthecapitalbeforealthoughmyfriendArthurhadnot,IfirstvisitedLondonasastudent,reluctantlyreleasedfr
ClimaticconditionsaredelicatelyadjustedtothecompositionoftheEarth’satmosphere.Iftherewereachangeintheatmosphe
ThewidespreadadoptionoftheInternetandtheWebmakesitpossibletoadministerquestionnairesurveyselectronically.potent
Thirty-onemillionAmericansareover60yearsofage,andtwenty-ninemillionofthemarehealthy,busy,productivecitizens.By
Newtechnologylinkstheworldasneverbefore.Ourplanethasshrunk.It’snowa"globalvillage"wherecountriesareonlyseco
Onleavingschoolhebecameanoffice-boyandhavingno______torisehigher,heonlywastedhistime.
随机试题
根据中文提示,将对话中缺少的内容写在线上。这些句子必须符合英语表达习惯。打句号的地方,用陈述句;打问号的地方,用疑问句。提示:小王有事来找小张,问他可否抽出点时间。小张正忙着准备一份报告,没时间,说他明天有空,同意小王明天再来,答应早上9:30等他
下列辅料在软膏中的作用A.单硬脂酸甘油酯B.甘油C.白凡士林D.十二烷基硫酸钠E.对羟基苯甲酸乙酯乳化剂
患者,女,25岁。孕40周临产,规则宫缩12小时,破膜10小时,肛查:宫口开大5cm,先露+0.5。首先应考虑的诊断是
膜性肾小球肾炎的主要病理特点是
甲公司为上市公司,系—般纳税人,适用增值税税率为17%。为提高市场占有率及实现多元化经营,甲公司在2010年进行了—系列投资和资本运作,且甲公司与各个公司均为境内居民企业,所得税税率均为25%。(1)甲公司于2010年4月20日与乙公司的控股股东A公司签
下面属于银监会负责监管的非银行业金融机构有()
()是指按借贷协议在一定时期可以变动的利率,其具有一定的科学合理性。
古典农业社会中,人的乡愁和城市没有太大的关系。彼时的乡愁大抵是怀才不遇的流荡,以及战争带来的_______和乡土难返。而现在,大多数“乡愁感慨”是具有城市生活经历的人发出的,他们发愁的是城市“工作好不好找,房子买不买得起”等等,过去随时可以返回的家乡,正逐
A、 B、 C、 D、 C
AlthoughChina’sexportincreasesareexpectedtoslowdownnextyear,agoodinvestmentenvironmentandlow-cost,high-quality
最新回复
(
0
)