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The Poison Line

by Cara McGoogan

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · October 22, 2023

Infected blood - from scandal to inquiry

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An investigative account piecing together the story of how Factor VIII, a plasma product heralded as a miracle treatment for haemophilia in the 1960s, came to kill thousands of patients in the 1980s through contamination with hepatitis and HIV, exposing medical negligence, commercial greed and government failures.

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