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Re: Anthrax worse than AIDS?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 25 Oct 2001 21:43:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Horst Lehner writes:
> ... or why foreign patents are less important than US patents
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> To me it seems the US are trying to save some money in this case, whereas
> they did just about everything to protect their own profits with anti AIDS
> products. This even extends beyond enforcing their patents, in that they
> threatened with economic war in at least one case where a country wanted to
> manufacture their own anti AIDS drugs *without* violating US patents.
Make that two: Brazil and South Africa. I have followed the brazilian case
through Cable, so I understood some of the $$ involved. Nasty $-diplomacy...
The brazilians have had some success since the introduction of
State-manufactered drugs in AIDS-control.
> National emergency? Doesn't this apply a lot more to some countries with
> high numbers of HIV positive people, than to the US with a few Anthrax cases
> right now [1]?
I dunno. The thing about Anthrax is that it is very easily disseminated, and
it has faster effects. OTOH, Anthrax *isn't* 100% lethal, and it is endemic
in some countries... (take mine, for instance). So they are rather
different, and I think they may require different approaches.
> :wq
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> Horst
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> [1] To my knowledge, none of these actually requires Bayer's Cipro,
> because other products are working as well for the type of bacteria
> that have been found up to now.
Precaution, maybe?
Anyway, what is Bayer's capability of Cipro production/distribution (# of
people simulteneously treated), and what is the effective # of *suspected*
cases?
I think the US have antecipated a scenario far worse than it is happening...
Pedro
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