Trusted: Children And Aspirin, A Deadly Dance Of Science, Business, And Politics
Author: Karen Starko
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"Trusted is the tale of finding the cause of Reye’s syndrome, a devastating and mysterious illness described by Dr RDK Reye and colleagues at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Camperdown, Sydney in 1963. In 1978, ten-year-old Mark Keller woke up with fever, headache and a cough. His mother kept him home from school that day and a few more. He appeared to be getting better. Then, with no warning, Mark began vomiting violently and became delirious. His parents rushed him to his pediatrician’s office. An ambulance was called and dispatched immediately. During the 15-minute ride to the emergency department, Mark lapsed into a coma. Within hours he was dead. Parents were terrified of the enigmatic illness. Doctors were saying ‘nothing can be done beyond taking aspirin.’ Before Covid-19, before Flint, before AIDS, this deadly brain-swelling illness was striking down thousands of perfectly healthy children and was one of the first man-made public health crises in modern times. Trusted is a non-fiction, memoir-exposé of the discovery of aspirin as the cause and history of this decades-long, twentieth-century tragedy."