Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal That Altered the AIDS Crisis McGoogan Cara
How a miracle treatment turned deadly and changed the course of the AIDS crisis.By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling…
Specifikacia Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal That Altered the AIDS Crisis McGoogan Cara
How a miracle treatment turned deadly and changed the course of the AIDS crisis.By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning the disease entirely. Then, as chronicled in Blood Farm, a new HIV-positive population emerged, one that included kids like Ken Dixon, Brad Cross, and Ryan White who had been infected as young as ten years old. But how?Unbeknownst to doctors and patients, pharmaceutical companies like Bayer, Baxter, and Armour collected plasma on skid row, in night clubs, and in some of America's most notorious prisons to make Factor VIII, a new miracle treatment for hemophilia. Companies knew these practices put patients at high risk of HIV, but miracles are a lucrative business, so they knowingly