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haemophilia
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haemophilia (US), hemophilia
an inheritable disease, usually affecting only males but transmitted by women to their male children, characterized by loss or impairment of the normal clotting ability of blood so that a minor wound may result in fatal bleeding
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The letter highlighted deaths including Majid Movafaga, an addict who hanged himself in December, 2008, and mother-of-six Margaret Fletcher, aged 37, who died in March and had been drinking heavily after her haemophiliac husband contracted Aids from infected blood and died.
Deaths probe; VERDICT: Drug service vow by Birmingham Mail (England)
Carol Grayson, of Jesmond, Newcastle, lost her haemophiliac husband Peter Longstaff in 2005 after he contracted HIV and hepatitis C from infected NHS blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.
Grieving widow's award by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Swanepoel is the first haemophiliac to undergo an organ transplant in South Africa.
'Today I'm a new man' by Bateman, Chris / CME: Your SA Journal of CPD
 
 
 
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