Christopher Martin once had dreams of becoming a flight attendant, travelling the world and opening his own hotel. But those aspirations were cruelly snatched from him before he even had time to imagine them.
At just 12-months-old, Christopher was unknowingly infected with hepatitis C in a scandal that shocked the nation. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of people with haemophilia were infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses.
The infections came after patients were given contaminated clotting factor products to help treat their conditions, many of them imported from the USA.
Christopher was one of those victims – receiving the tainted blood when he was just a baby. With no symptoms other than jaundice, the virus went undetected for many years until it was revealed in a blood test when Christopher was nine-years-old.
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