Kill shot : a shadow industry, a deadly disease /
Dearen, Jason,
Kill shot : a shadow industry, a deadly disease / Jason Dearen. - xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"The untold story of the worst contaminated drug crisis in U.S. history"--Dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.
Two pharmacists sit in a Boston courtroom accused of murder. The weapon: the fungus Exserohilum rostratum. The death count: 100 and rising. Kill Shot is the story of their hubris and fraud, discovered by a team of medical detectives who raced against the clock to hunt the killers and the fungal meningitis they'd unleashed. An award-winning investigative journalist's horrifying true crime story of America's deadliest drug contamination outbreak and the greed and deception that fueled it.
9780593085783 0593085787
2020013132
New England Compounding Center.
Meningitis--History--United States--21st century.
Epidemics--History--United States--21st century.
Drugs--Dosage forms--Health aspects--United States.
Drug adulteration--History--United States--21st century.
Pharmaceutical industry--Corrupt practices--History--United States--21st century.
Kill shot : a shadow industry, a deadly disease / Jason Dearen. - xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"The untold story of the worst contaminated drug crisis in U.S. history"--Dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.
Two pharmacists sit in a Boston courtroom accused of murder. The weapon: the fungus Exserohilum rostratum. The death count: 100 and rising. Kill Shot is the story of their hubris and fraud, discovered by a team of medical detectives who raced against the clock to hunt the killers and the fungal meningitis they'd unleashed. An award-winning investigative journalist's horrifying true crime story of America's deadliest drug contamination outbreak and the greed and deception that fueled it.
9780593085783 0593085787
2020013132
New England Compounding Center.
Meningitis--History--United States--21st century.
Epidemics--History--United States--21st century.
Drugs--Dosage forms--Health aspects--United States.
Drug adulteration--History--United States--21st century.
Pharmaceutical industry--Corrupt practices--History--United States--21st century.