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Thu 09 Sep 2000BTSB did not minute HIV casesNo specific reference was made in the minutes of Blood Transfusion Service Board (BTSB) meetings to the discovery in mid-1986 that a number of haemophiliacs had contracted HIV from a clotting agent manufactured by the blood bank, the tribunal was told.Mr Ted Keyes, former executive consultant of the board, said there was no particular reason for this and he assumed all board members would have been aware of the problem.