Up to 6,520 people are believed to have been infected with hepatitis C through imported factor VIII blood products in the 1970s and 80s, while a further 26,800 are estimated to have been infected though blood transfusions. About 2,000 people are estimated to have died as a result.
The inquiry, which publishes its final report on 20 May, heard that the medical profession considered non-A and non-B hepatitis (later known as hepatitis C) as "relatively benign" at the time, with Pier Mannuccio Mannucci's 2003 paper, Aids, hepatitis and haemophilia in the 1980s, quoted in support of this proposition.
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