The Poison Line By: Cara McGoogan [Audiobook]

General Information
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 Title:                  The Poison Line
 Author:                 Cara McGoogan
 Read By:                Cara McGoogan
 Copyright:              2023
 Audiobook Copyright:    2023
 Publisher:              
 Duration:               13 hours, 24 minutes, 40 seconds
 Chapters:               14
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Book Description
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The shocking true story of how a miracle cure became a deadly poison, and the lengths that big pharma and government took to cover it up, for readers of Patrick Radden Keefe's Empire of Pain and John Carreyrou's Bad Blood
When it was first put on the market in the late 1960s, Factor VIII was sold as a medical miracle: a revolutionary treatment that freed people with haemophilia to reclaim their lives, no longer in fear that a bleed might prove fatal. But as the cure was rolled out wholesale in the 1970s and 80s, haemophiliacs began to contract hepatitis and AIDS in terrifying numbers. Questions began to be asked. Rumours circulated in the press. How safe was Factor VIII?
The book traces the line of infection back to the pharmaceutical companies - Alpha, Armour, Baxter and Bayer - who made Factor VIII by pooling thousands of donors' paid-for plasma and selling it for billions of dollars. The miracle treatment was infected with HIV, and it was being injected straight into the arms of people with haemophilia around the world. Before long, Factor VIII was killing those it promised to protect.
In this David and Goliath story, we follow the survivors-turned-campaigners, the small-town lawyers and the fearless journalists who took on some of the most powerful interests in the world - from medical institutions to governments and big business - to uncover what really happened in the infected blood scandal, the worst treatment disaster in NHS history. From 'an indefatigable detective and born storyteller' (Steve Coll), The Poison Line brings the full truth into the light in all its shocking and riveting detail.
About Cara McGoogan
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Cara McGoogan is the award-winning writer of Bed of Lies, a documentary podcast series that investigates major British scandals, including the Infected Blood Scandal. McGoogan has won two Society of Editors' Press Awards, a Media Freedom Award and a British Journalism Award. In 2022 she was awarded the Stern-Bryan Fellowship at the Washington Post, which is given annually to Britain's best early-career journalist. McGoogan is the Telegraph's first Narrative Audio Journalist. The Poison Line is her first book.

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