Dearen grew up in California and attended the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He has twice been nominated by the Associated Press for the Pulitzer Prize. His work appears regularly in hundreds of newspapers and websites, including The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, and The New York Times. About the Author: Jason Dearen is an award-winning investigative journalist for the Associated Press and was a 2018-2019 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Kill Shot forces a powerful but unchecked industry out of the shadows. 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. 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.

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. Bloodthirsty is how doctors described the fungal microbe that contaminated thousands of drug vials produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC).

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