The full and shocking account of one of the biggest medical disasters in recent 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 treatment 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?
Even as medical bodies and pharmaceutical companies tried to discredit whistleblowers and diminish the evidence, it became abundantly clear that the -miracle- treatment was infected. Before long, F
