Points on Oxford Presentation Note
Para 20 - “Prophylate” should be “Profilate” / source: http://www.penroseinquiry.org.uk/downloads/1343645944-PEN0190927.pdf (Page 5)
Para 20 - Koate was not made by Speywood, it was made by Cutter. source: http://www.penroseinquiry.org.uk/downloads/1343645944-PEN0190927.pdf (Page 5)
Para 21 - Says “By 1982, pharmaceutical companies including Armour, Cutter, Travenol and Alpha Therapeutics were developing heat-treated factor products” - it should be acknowledged here that “Behringwerke, A.G., initiated studies in 1977 on heat inactivation methods for AHF concentrate” and “Behringwerke's "heat sterilized" Factor VIII was licensed in Germany in May 1981” / source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232415/
Missing Point - I do not believe the Inquiry presentation makes any mention of Rizza’s / Oxford’s membership of the “Epidemiological Studies Committee” which reported to the “Council AIDS Committee”. The importance of this is paramount for a number of reasons. 1) The associated paperwork i provide as follows, was found in Cabinet Office confidential library papers and 2) The terms of reference of the committee that Rizza was a part of state "research on the natural history and transmission of AIDS in the UK and abroad, and, in particular, the evidence concerning heterosexual transmission. This should include the female partners of bisexualmen, the spouses of haemophiliacs who are HTLV-3 positive and the spouses, male and female, of persons infected through blood transfusion" 3) The “Council Committee on AIDS” was chaired by CMO’s from England and Scotland, and Earl Jellicoe (Chairman of the MRC and former gov minister) among others 4) This work was discussed / considered at a Cabinet level. - the associated 2 pages are from Cabinet papers from 1988 to confirm Rizza / Oxford involvement. - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oXrnOA3-eRHkRG9qCG3g3AIWZmIcO2HB/view?usp=sharing
Missing point - By 1972, Oxford had provided data and “punchcards” to Baruch Samuel Blumberg in the USA (who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the Hep B). This was for “A Study of the Occurrence of Various Inherited and Acquired Antigens and Antibodies in the Blood of Patients with Hemophilia Who have Been Seen at the Oxford Haemophilia Centre”. The paperwork I have on this is linked below, I obtained it from the American Philosophical Society.
