TY - BOOK AU - Dearen,Jason TI - Kill shot: a shadow industry, a deadly disease SN - 9780593085783 PY - 2021///] CY - New York PB - Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House KW - New England Compounding Center KW - Meningitis KW - United States KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Epidemics KW - Drugs KW - Dosage forms KW - Health aspects KW - Drug adulteration KW - Pharmaceutical industry KW - Corrupt practices N1 - "The untold story of the worst contaminated drug crisis in U.S. history"--Dust jacket; Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index N2 - 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 ER -