Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease - Jason Dearen

Written by Jason Dearen
Read by Jason Dearen
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

General Information
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Title: Kill Shot
Subtitle: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease
Author: Jason Dearen
Narrator: Jason Dearen
Audiobook Copyright: 2021
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Duration: 06:37:10
ISBN: 9780593290347
Subjects: Medical, Sociology, Nonfiction

File Information
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Media Format: MP3
Total Files: 7
Total Size: 18 MB
Bitrate: 64 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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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.
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.
“Bloodthirsty” is how doctors described the fungal microbe that
contaminated thousands of drug vials produced by the New England
Compounding Center (NECC). Though NECC chief Barry Cadden called his
company the “Ferrari of Compounders,” it was a slapdash operation of
unqualified staff, mold-ridden lab surfaces, and hastily made
medications that were injected into approximately 14,000 people. Once
inside some of its human hosts, the fungus traveled through the tough
tissue around the spine and wormed upward to the “deep brain,” our
control center for balance, breath, and the vital motor functions of
life.
Now, investigative journalist Jason Dearen turns a spotlight on this
tragedy—the victims, the heroes, and the perpetrators—and the legal
loopholes that allowed it to occur. Kill Shot forces a powerful but
unchecked industry out of the shadows.