Title: Kill Shot
Description: 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. 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.
Subjects: Internal medicine, Meningitis, History, Epidemics, Drugs, Dosage forms, Health aspects, Drug adulteration, Pharmaceutical industry, Corrupt practices, Phytopathogenic fungi, Pleosporaceae, MEDICAL / Internal Medicine, New England Compounding Center