1.   Green Cross is losing money because of lawsuits involving its sale of blood products tainted with the HIV virus.

2.   Green Cross has been losing money because of lawsuits involving the sale of blood products tainted with the HIV virus.

3.   Green Cross has been losing money from settlements of lawsuits involving the sale of blood products tainted with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

4.   The company has been losing money since lawsuits involving the sale of blood products tainted with HIV virus.

5.   Prosecutors indicted a former top health ministry official Friday on charges of failing to stop the use of blood products tainted with the AIDS virus.

6.   Prosecutors on Wednesday began a criminal investigation into whether a major Japanese pharmaceutical firm was guilty of negligence for selling blood products tainted with AIDS.

7.   In a broadening scandal, prosecutors raided offices of another Japanese drug firm Friday accused of selling blood products tainted with the virus that causes AIDS.

8.   A retired health ministry official faces a murder accusation from the family of a man who died from using blood products tainted with HIV, Kyodo News reported Tuesday.

9.   Three former presidents of a pharmaceutical firm pleaded guilty Monday to charges of selling blood products tainted with the HIV virus as their trial opened in western Japan.