Matty Merry, the story of a child infected with HIV during medical treatment | ELESPECTADOR.COM

His mother told him the truth when he was 12 years old in 1986, later learned that he was also transmitted hepatitis C. This was not the only case, at least 2,800 people were infected with injections.

Matt Merry was diagnosed with hemophilia a few years after his birth. The disease prevents blood clotting, which means that people who wear it bleed longer if they cut or have an injury. This has serious consequences such as internal or external bleeding.

This was not the only health problem for Merry because at the age of four, he had been infected with HIV by means of an injection for his treatment. of hemophilia.

The native of Rugby City in England knew that he had AIDS in 1986, at the age of 12 years. His mother was the one who told him, but he made the condition of not to tell anyone.

At that time, people with the virus were excluded because the disease was unknown and was directly associated with a death sentence.

(You might be interested: scientists are taking an encouraging step towards an HIV vaccine)

After several years, we learn that at least 2,800 people with hemophilia died from the use of medical articles containing tainted blood, and from other tens of thousands of non-hemophiliacs have been infected with different viruses. According to information provided by militant organizations at BBC

he adds that for the treatment, blood was used, which turned out to be drug addicts or who were In prison So, after several years, the government of this country will open an investigation.

Merry had the secret that he was HIV-positive, for listening to his mother and also for his classmates not to bother him. Years later, he was also diagnosed with hepatitis C .

(It may be interesting: Eight cases of HIV-positive people are reported in Bogotá every day).

At the university stage, the doctors told him that he was cured of hepatitis C because he was following a treatment with very strong drugs.

Since 2008 he is married and has two children, which he has had through a technique called "Semen wash" to eliminate the virus and make an artificial insemination. He took this alternative with his wife to prevent their children from becoming infected.