The Poison Line: The shocking true story of how a miracle cure became a deadly poison
by Cara McGoogan
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Hardback. New. <p><b>The full and shocking account of one of the biggest medical disasters in recent history â</b><b> and the lengths that big pharma, the NHS and governments worldwide took to cover it up</b><br /><br /><b>âA devastating piece of reportage. Books are routinely described as extraordinary, but this one really isâ </b>John Preston, author of <i>Fall</i><br /><i>________________</i><br /><br />Factor VIII was billed as a medical miracle when it was put on the market in the late 1960s: a revolutionary treatment that meant people with haemophilia no longer feared a bleed might prove fatal.<br /><br />But as the treatment was rolled out, haemophiliacs began to contract hepatitis and AIDS in terrifying numbers. Rumours circulated in the press; a climate of fear took hold. How safe <i>was</i> Factor VIII?<br /><br />Even as medical bodies and pharmaceutical companies tried to discredit whistleblowers and diminish the evidence, it became abundantly clear that the âmiracleâ treatment was infected. Before long, Factor VIII was killing the very people it promised to protect. And government embarked on a cover-up on an industrial scale.<br /><br />Award-winning investigative journalist Cara McGoogan follows the survivors-turned-campaigners, the small-town lawyers and the fearless journalists who took on some of the most powerful interests in the world to uncover what really happened in the infected blood scandal.<br /><i>________________</i><br /><br /><b>'</b><b><i>The Poison Line</i></b><b> is the gripping tale of a terrible scandal' </b>Jonathan Freedland, author of <i>The Escape Artist</i><br /><br /><b>âThis is a vital account of the infected blood scandal and subsequent cover-up . . . The truth must be toldâ </b>Andy Burnham<br /><br /><b>'Cara McGoogan is an indefatigable detective and a born storyteller' </b>Steve Coll, author of <i>Ghost Wars</i><br /><br /><b>'The definitive account of one of modern medicine's most chilling scandals'</b> Gerald Posner, author of <i>Pharma</i><br /><br /><b>BASED ON THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING <i>BED OF LIES</i> PODCAST</b></p>
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- The Poison Line: The shocking true story of how a miracle cure became a deadly poison
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- Cara McGoogan
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- 9780241627501
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