The Untold Story Of The Worst Contaminated Drug Crisis In U.S. History
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Join investigative journalist Jason Dearen for a presentation based on his book Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, A Deadly Disease and learn about the true crime story of America’s deadliest drug contamination outbreak and the greed and deception that fueled it. The book recounts the story of their hubris and fraud, discovered by a team of medical detectives who raced against the clock to hunt the killers and fungal meningitis causing the deadliest drug contamination outbreak spreading from a compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts to multiple states throughout the country, killing more than 100 people and infecting thousands. The author will share how you can protect yourself from medicines created in unregulated compounding pharmacies.
Jason Dearen is an award-winning journalist for the Associated Press and was a 2018-2019 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. His work appears regularly in hundreds of newspapers and websites, including The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, and The New York Times.
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