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3 The Silent Crisis Inside Global Medicine and the Company Fighting It
When Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, he warned that misusing the drug would cause bacteria to return stronger. Today, resistant superbugs threaten millions of lives, yet the world's largest pharmaceutical companies have largely abandoned new antibiotic development due to unviable economic returns.Understanding why major drug developers walked away requires analyzing how treatment duration impacts corporate revenue. A patient takes diabetes or blood pressure medication every day for life, creating reliable, predictable sales. In contrast, an antibiotic course lasts just three to five…
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