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A woman who was infected with hepatitis C during a blood transfusion more than 20 years ago has lost a High Court bid for compensation.
Sharon Moore, 50, from Dunstable in Bedfordshire, was among thousands accidentally given contaminated NHS blood supplies in the mid 1980s.
She received the transfusion at Luton and Dunstable Hospital in June 1987.
The court said she could not prove she was infected for more than six months, which is required to trigger payment.
Ms Moore, who was 26 at the time of the transfusion, discovered her blood was infected with Hepatitis C in 1998 - nearly 11 years later.
Tests showed the virus had cleared her system naturally, but she is at increased risk of diseases including liver cancer.
The Hepatitis C Trust believes as many as half a million people may have been infected before 1988 with contaminated blood.
Two earlier compensation claims were rejected by the Skipton Fund, which administers the government's compensation scheme, on the grounds that Ms Moore could not prove the hepatitis virus was in her system for more than six months.
A third claim was rejected in May 2009 by the fund's appeal panel.
Ms Moore said she had been turned down for a job with the police due to her hepatitis C infection.
She believes that because she now has to disclose her medical history on applications for insurance, she has been disadvantaged.
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
A woman who was infected with hepatitis C during a blood transfusion more than 20 years ago has lost a High Court bid for compensation.
Sharon Moore, 50, from Dunstable in Bedfordshire, was among thousands accidentally given contaminated NHS blood supplies in the mid 1980s.
She received the transfusion at Luton and Dunstable Hospital in June 1987.
The court said she could not prove she was infected for more than six months, which is required to trigger payment.
Ms Moore, who was 26 at the time of the transfusion, discovered her blood was infected with Hepatitis C in 1998 - nearly 11 years later.
Tests showed the virus had cleared her system naturally, but she is at increased risk of diseases including liver cancer.
The Hepatitis C Trust believes as many as half a million people may have been infected before 1988 with contaminated blood.
Two earlier compensation claims were rejected by the Skipton Fund, which administers the government's compensation scheme, on the grounds that Ms Moore could not prove the hepatitis virus was in her system for more than six months.
A third claim was rejected in May 2009 by the fund's appeal panel.
Ms Moore said she had been turned down for a job with the police due to her hepatitis C infection.
She believes that because she now has to disclose her medical history on applications for insurance, she has been disadvantaged.
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
