Known for his quick temper, Mr. Kan, 63, gained national attention in the mid-1990s when as health minister he exposed his own ministry's use of blood tainted with H.I.V..

Known for his quick temper, Mr. Kan, 63, gained national attention in the mid-1990s when as health minister he exposed the use of blood tainted with H.I.V..

She had already abandoned her university studies two years earlier after discovering that she had been infected with hepatitis C as a baby, via a tainted blood-clotting agent.