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Hi listeners, it's Karam Agugan here.

I wanted to share a new extract from my book about the infected blood scandal with you.

In the UK it's called the Poison Line and in the US, Blood Farm.

Both editions are out now.

In this extract we join an ambitious young journalist in 1983 who's discovered a problem

a reporting will send shockwaves of fear through a boarding school in the English countryside.

I hope you find it interesting.

Sue Douglas landed her job as medical correspondent at the Mail on Sunday in a roundabout way.

She had studied physiology and biochemistry at university in the 1970s, testing scientific

hypotheses on animals in the laboratory.

She learnt how to capture rats with one hand, scooping under its front paws and clasping

two fingers around its head.

After university, she had moved to America to work as a management consultant at Anderson

Consulting, the precursor to Accenture.

Within a year Sue realised she had chosen the wrong career and in a move that took her

friends and family by surprise, she pivoted into journalism.

She returned to Britain to work at a medical magazine before moving to South Africa to

report on the repressive apartheid regime there.

In Soweto, she was at a riot when she saw a police officer beat up two children.

We've got to stop this, she said to her photographer, panicking her voice.

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