The disaster has been caused by the misleading policy of this province's health department. In 1993, the health department issued a policy to encourage its citizens (mainly poor farmers) to sell blood to medicine manufacturers. To increase the quanlity, they 'invented' a technology that extract red blood cells form the blood. The red blodd cells are injected back to the blood seller's body. By this way, the seller can sell blood more frequently.

In this procedure, the blood sellers are cross infected by aids. In one of the village, 80% of the population are infected (offical report).

In 1994, the health department header-Liu Quanxi flight to the USA to sell the blood products, but 3 out of 15 samples showed HIV positive.The deal was not closed for this reason.

As the operation was in charged by the health department, they used the simple way to draw bloood and inject back by the common tools, more and more people are infected.

In 1996, even after receiving warning, Liu Quanxi replied that "No Aids in Henan".

Based on expert's extimate, the number of infected in this province is between 500,000 and 700,000.

Even after this disaster comes to truth, The Health Department started to use it as a new way to make a futune. Health Department ordered all doctors and nurses to attend the aids traning, charge 40 Yuan each person. (博讯boxun.com)