The shocking true story of the contaminated blood scandal: the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, where people were infected with HIV from a revolutionary medical treatment and a cover-up by governments and the multi-billion dollar plasma industry.

"The Poison Prophet" is the gripping account of a dreadful scandal. Factor VIII was hailed as a medical miracle when it hit the market in the late 1960s: a revolutionary treatment that meant people with hemophilia no longer feared that a bleed could be fatal. However, as the treatment became available, hemophiliacs began contracting hepatitis and AIDS in terrifying numbers. Even as medical bodies and pharmaceutical companies tried to dismiss whistleblowers and downplay the evidence, it was becoming increasingly clear that the miracle treatment was contaminated. Factor VIII was killing the very people it promised to protect.

Award-winning investigative journalist Cara McGoogan tracks the survivor-victors, small-town lawyers, and fearless journalists who faced off against some of the world's most powerful forces to uncover the truth about the contaminated blood scandal.

McGoogan has created a necessary work that must be highlighted. "The Poison Prophet" is the definitive account of one of modern medicine's most terrifying scandals.

Pages: 416, Dimensions: 16.2x16.2cm