The full and shocking account of one of the biggest medical disasters in history ¿ and the lengths that big pharma, the NHS and governments worldwide took to cover it up

`A devastating piece of reportage. Books are routinely described as extraordinary, but this one really is¿ John Preston, author of Fall
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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.

But as the cure 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 was Factor VIII?

As medical bodies and governments repeatedly tried to silence whistle-blowers and discredit the evidence, it became abundantly clear that the `miracle¿ treatment was infected. Before long, Factor VIII was killing the very people it promised to protect.

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 world¿s most powerful interests to uncover what really happened in the infected blood scandal.
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'The Poison Line is the gripping tale of a terrible scandal' Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape Artist

'Cara McGoogan is an indefatigable detective and a born storyteller' Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars

'The definitive account of one of modern medicine's most chilling scandals' Gerald Posner, author of Pharma

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