hands it's the main component of blood it's more expensive than oil it's a look struck. it down kitty does it process tell us a new book anybody else misquote acceptable p. dum i shall die each systems them keep down man. he should apply he did you pull. a motor car or you'll ever been in this. kill me so. i don't want to do that number of most of us. we decided to explore a little known area within the health industry the blood trail. our investigation took us to france germany and the us they don't like arrest or interview the i don't know if. they don't want something a door right they need to stop public want to know. today carlos is donating blood despite his busy job he's

a regular blood donor at the red cross center and lows on carlos sees his act as a sign of commitment to the community. of the city it's more than one hundred million donations are collected each year worldwide in two thousand and fifteen. the swiss red cross registered three hundred eleven thousand donations the figure diminishes each year and they're constantly seeking new donors their message is clear giving blood saves lives. southwest over much of new. sickish for it it might add to. the money to do more. good in additional. cases. because. it. just couldn't keep one. push to focus. come in can the border patrol on the need

to get in putting this woman. who they are but blood is a quite peculiar jew said found devil with glee but he's not the only want to be interested health is also an industry and blood donations are subject to the laws of the market. but. this. when you don't before giving blood these swiss donors must complete a medical question here and give their informed consent in particular there is one line at the end of the form a sentence in small letters i am aware that some components of my donation may be used for the production of drugs only a few donors read this line though it's crucial in reality most of the donated blood is sold to private companies something the red cross doesn't advertise.

to help them i hope to sponsor thousand look spent on. the sin fold loot spend in the highest indies the blue spend and since not in the loop in the us plus more. investment. and good thoughts to end on that include tile in the system plus muscle does not at. the swimming detect indenture tail him to inch battaile ticed foot putts he entered in the uncool salute to little stop and decent he says while the woman is at stealth and uses the title to us into fast off to put scent gate in the so going on to talk till need into sleep since fear. to come into. the plasma fractionation industry. these are the pharmaceutical companies that buy eighty thousand liters of

plasma from the red cross each year the humanitarian institution makes nearly ten million swiss francs from the sale of the donors aware of it. of are doing. tween a song pop awesome. and by no man more the boss of the show's own. don't wonder song at del said if it comes with a needle song it. vernia. a kiss wait to see it done is appeal to the song and watching. him when you don't do something to me muschamp innocent first discovery the majority of the donors blood is sold to pharmaceutical industries. the industry is so interested in carlos's blood for a specific reason it's liquid part called plasma contains sought after proteins.

they're used to make very expensive and profitable drugs. who are the players behind this industry. we decided to track the plasma trade. welcome to see it sounds last typically fifty seven percent of our blood is made of a plastic plastic is a strong other liquid poisons the whole of life that transports water and nutrients to all sounds or not it is composed of approximately ninety percent water and ten percent plasma plasma industry is healing chant a handful of companies share the world market baxter in the usa c.s.l. bearing in australia and your foals in spain and the company farm in switzerland which we discover through these promotional films material is produced by the perfect bio reactor developed over millions of you. as of evolution the human body

for these companies with asthma is nothing but a raw material and very lucrative to europe and the professional term is fractionation the name of the procedure that transforms donors plasma into drugs to do this with a callback to freeze and mix thousands of liters of human plasma these companies control a market which is worth seventeen billion dollars and growing steadily history so that the plasma gong margaery the president and co-founder of dr pharma is a very discrete person forbes estimates his fortune at six billion dollars this is one of his very rare public appearances how do you see the future developing these products lifesaving drugs and they will be required for some patient groups as a lifelong therapy presumably they're covered by in most insurance they have to be as to very expensive but that is also the other part of the same from the same

calling them many countries who simply cannot afford to provide this kind of level of treatment to the population yet at least it sounds easier to save applies will be available enough to just go for you and your country the ploughs well. when you make those products it's not the case. remains a family business dedicated to always going to patients to go. in that like adventure. throughout the world the lives of millions of patients depend on these treatments tomorrow is one of them today she's receiving her treatment at a hospital in bear since childhood she suffers from an immune deficiency that causes repeated infractions.

yeah thanks to her plasma based treatment to mars life has become easier so much so that it would be difficult for her to go without. before i don't have horns and they may say shut up it's very yawn yes. so to escape was quit on the set just show for it and get it today in fact in fact the only bit. he will fight he had are a spin phocion of whom are. you going to skate medevaced but i'm ok. three storm. as the saying three more. to get their footing not on my head. could have on the soap and makeup but so you don't ever.

get up to thank them kindly. on them to could also flash to seek. to clean that is something to see come. to see. you have to. bend unorthodox in america to come out of the know come a. very must read created for us and we see that. face of. that from pick call. this moment that would be our special. place and. where is her life changing drug from where is the blood in the drug from from swiss donors.

i when me. next they. didn't know what. the plasmas origin isn't public information it's a trade secret we decide to visit swiss medic this is the swiss authority in charge of drug control including their origins these expert analyzed plasma samples each week as well as the blood derived products that are used in hospitals and you. know just in profit. is they not only can. i just lost my cool it's. been down to. the department. he's known stephen oh he said he said. that i will be down to taste. it but the bait but the. live feed. didn't do dns over there plus

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in front of me straight the guy had to be fifty eight spans and could actually hit includes two through from cleveland. west twenty fifth street. home to the cleveland united states we decided to travel there. and. i'm tom hartman and i'll give you what the mainstream media can't tell the big picture we'll go deeper investigate and debate. all so you can get the big picture. on larry king and you are watching our t.v. america question and more.

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its. quest twenty fifth street the address listed in swiss medics registered some of the players were used in the drug sold in switzerland comes from here. this blood collection center belongs to the australian companies c.s.l. donate plasma save lives earn up to two hundred dollars a month. there are donor ads everywhere which tell us that the volunteers are paid for their blood. as opposed to most european countries the usa allows compensation for blood donations this practice is legal. we enter the premises which are under heavy surveillance impossible to speak with the status it. just yank it this time and take action she endured the railway as you know with different deals from the u.k. press the free agent the press the story just get this straight. yeah. the

center is in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods. cleveland is a devastated city the financial crisis of two thousand and eight was a fatal blow. pastor lester williams knows the reality of life in this neighborhood many of his church followers sell their plasma. t.v. here you should know that. well you know i guess you know it's legal so i don't help probably get it that's when people just do it but what you strange is that companies they continue to call this

a donation. but which is a donation way when you pay someone is not a job it. is not it's not free just little donation should be should be free of until they do exploiting exploring people who are in whatever conditions he is economically. and actually now to do a nation to actually pay him for what i'll be in charge of a give away after this grow up in charge in switzerland for the pleasant soul to make your money on it and both you know the little that they're giving to these people is not very much. in cleveland all the market leaders are represented to see us out refold. we also find octo farm. the swiss company which produces tamara's drug. like that said

. there was a bull market goes there twice a week to sell its plasma. budget right now where for thirty two bucks for forty five dollars for fifty dollars. sure so so out of the same ballpark. true to twenty five. and i found out that i can with a plasma or you know or you know that's the problem when you're on tight budget it's a fragile thing you know. we wanted to go inside with him to speak with the people in charge this turned out to be impossible the hostility increased the closer we got to the center and. nothing to you you were and public property it is never happy that is now behind my friends meeting so we question donors

outside in the parking lot. this kind of like the extra money thing you know just to get a little money on a new. indian it just kind of became a regular firstly first start you get fifty dollars the first five times as a new customer in after day on tuesdays or thursdays any two days a week you get twenty dollars in any go up to forty dollars along if you've been donating and now for a year. as a starter let you know two times a week that's it yes this school. is good for the families is good for my family and. so one hand wash does. no one does it for any kind of moral reasons no one does it for them or no one no one does it because it helps people it's just that's one of the side effects is that it helps. the procedure is well established. as soon as the plasma bottle is full the donor's

credit card is created. here really here now. this is the plasma burn color so almost. like a regular. they put money on your car immediately after you get done and. sometimes. they forget to put the money on your car and you got to call the number on your car you know because if you don't call the number on your car you want to be without money. after the economic crisis donations stored in the usa going from fifteen million in two thousand and seven to thirty two million in two thousand and fourteen look shaper is a sociologist at michigan university. when we look at the numbers of families reporting cash incomes below two dollars per person per day

in any given month. it well more than doubles over a fifteen year period and when we look at the number of families who are who are on food stamps it actually quadrupled emergency that goes through the roof so when all of these things are put in the same direction. we walked into the plasma clinic down the street and just ask people why are you here what's going on people lost their jobs haven't been able to find work you know in many cases that's going to be the only and i mean in the household it's their only option. we rejoined mark at the entrance to the center it didn't work out the way he wanted the center refused him because his blood pressure was too high. to be able to delete them. yes. it's very important because. i take my blood pressure medication

and i think i think. then if you can donate it it's a it's a financial issue it is it is it is. likely it's not life or death it's not asked to do it. as valuable stuff. that i might have to ask friends if they you know just for you know i mean i'll take care of it soon i'll be able to i'll be able to get my blood pressure straighten out and that's why it is good for me to. we accompanied him to a small subsidized apartment that he's been living in for a year.

money to make a cell phone home when i had my stroke it was about three years ago i went into the doctor's to be quite honest i was drinking a lot i was doing drugs i was combining a lot of bad stuff so the next day i went to the cleveland clinic which is one of our really good hospitals in cleveland in the word with people that thought of a lot of money as you get raided it when you get raided it may means you can basically go there for free and get health care and as we're qualifying the lady do it you say oh you're way below poverty level i'm like. you know there's below and there's a way below so that was an eye opener. there are times when. for my own self-esteem. i don't want to accept help i want to be able to. to say

no thanks but no fix to a god to form. it's kind of easy money. it's necessary at least for me it's necessary. for mark and many other americans blood is his last source of income. if he got sick he could no longer donate he'd have no income. but all of these blood donations are affecting his health. david margolick this is a doctor in one of the city's largest public hospitals in metro health is the safety net system for cleveland we take care of people we're garbus of their ability to pay for a lot of our patients and the people that we take care of at metro health this is

their one of the few strategies that they can use to get money out of the literature of say about the long term effects of donating plus my own was the week i couldn't find anything in the literature describing what the effects or i know from talking to my patients who do down a plasma that they're tired so they get fatigued they have headaches but beyond that. you now all i know is the red cross has one time a month and these guys are doing it twice a week. to talk to this individual who's donating my patient and he may not be able to afford a cell phone bill or rents and that is more important for his health potentially than the down side effects of donating because if he doesn't have a cell phone he can't get a job. or he can't pay his bills. you know hope freese so.

this is the. the dilemma that were and. what if you could earn extra money while doing something great for others to farm up last month you can not only our plasma donations by dole to the treatment of rare chronic internet it diseases you could also the usa is the world's main exporter of human class with seventy percent of the world market their success is based on a foolproof recipe by building on this type of campaign they nurture the image of a country with excellent sanitary conditions. the market is under the supervision of the food and drug administration the f.d.a. stamp is a guarantee of quality opening the doors to the international market each week frozen plasma is dispatched in shipments mainly to europe. this is the other side of the american dream masses of poor people willing to sell

their blood they provide an unlimited pool of primary material we wanted to understand the conditions in which blood is collected seven am in cleveland in the parking lot of pharma. i caved in the mud as dead heat we were abot dad and i want to get no more i just smog and i didn't need flour we need but. i don't want to do gangnam i get it dad now praise you know it is look i'm providing. a motor car. and. these stories illustrate the industrial pace and inadequate checks however the farmer assures the authorities that there is strict donor monitoring but if that's the case why didn't the swiss company let a center he has just why did they prevent us from talking to the staff it's how our it's donors selected to check we had to go and see for ourselves with

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