For someone whose life has been
shattered, Hiroshi Shimizu is remarkably calm. In a cramped Tokyo law office,
the subdued, bitter man in his 30s—using an assumed name for the interview
relates how he became infected with the HIV virus from tainted blood products
sold by Japanese hospitals to hemophiliacs during the mid-1980s. "I was raped,"
says Shimizu. "I never thought doctors would give me bad medicine. " last year, Shimizu was shocked when a doctor newly transferred to his hospital broke the news. Four years earlier, he had asked his previous doctor if he could safely marry. "He told me: ’There’s absolutely no problem,’ even though he knew [I was infected]," Shimizu says. "I could have passed it to my wife. " Luckily, he hasn’t. Shimizu is one of more than 2,000 hemophiliacs and their loved ones infected with the deadly vi A. was around thirty odd with his pseudonym B. was called Hiroshi Shimizu who was raped by the doctor C. was an infuriated, clamorous adolescent who got married four years ago D. was a greatly upset young man who got his blood transfusion about ten years ago [单项选择]Passage Five
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