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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: International Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Science & Medicine, Adult
ISBN: 9780241998397
Published: August 2024
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 416
Format: Paperback
RRP 295.00

The Poison Line

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The shocking true story of the infected blood scandal: the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, which saw people infected with HIV by a revolutionary medical treatment and a cover-up from governments and the multi-billion-dollar plasma industry.

'The Poison Line is the gripping tale of a terrible scandal' Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape Artist

'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 treatment was...

About the Author

Cara McGoogan

Cara McGoogan

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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