Our thanks to Warren for this article. He writes:

“Hi Mike, I thought you might be interested in this, from today’s BBC – ‘Memorial for pupils contaminated with HIV and hepatitis.’ Of course, the pupils used as guinea pigs were all boys. Despite the fact that the Lord Mayor Treloar School became co-educational in 1978. And HIV research was very much a 1980s thing.

Girls, although less likely to become hemophiliac due to their two X chromosomes, will express it if she inherits the hemophilia gene on both.”

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