• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Dengue. And the reason is, of course, that it’s not as profitable as other drugs. This is why we pay taxes.

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        We do. And it prevents about 80% of cases for people who get the vaccine. Having mosquito control, a vaccine, and a treatment would be better than having only the first two. But it takes money to do a phase 3 trial of a drug, and its hard to get private funding for studies like that when a disease mostly impacts poor people

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          Wasn’t it Bill Gates whole thing to invest in mosquito vaccines for poor people? Why isn’t he on this anymore?

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          If you are referring to the same vaccine I looked into years ago, it was only given to people that had already had dengue at least once before, dengue is only dangerous if you catch a different strain the second time around…or so that’s what I understood about it.