Chapter 186 Hepatitis B removal
After Wang Yi went to Africa, he heard another news from Lin Shiqin when he came back. Umbrella's hepatitis B virus-specific immunoglobulin had been approved!
This time is different from the previous two stone-removing drugs. This time, because it is a direct injection of drugs, only hospitals and epidemic prevention stations can inject them. This time, although Umbrella did not take the initiative to promote it due to the nature of the drug, it just updated it. product information.
But this time it was the official media who personally went to promote it!
It even made it onto the 7pm news!
"The 'Hepatitis B virus-specific immunoglobulin' developed by Umbrella has passed the review. This drug has a significant effect on people infected with hepatitis B virus."
It was a very ordinary statement, a very brief explanation, and it was as satisfactory as ever. However, after being so satisfactory, it caused an uproar across the country!
China is a hot spot for hepatitis B virus infection!
Even if the vaccine has been widely available, there are still nearly 100 million infected people, almost one in every ten people. What kind of ratio is this?
How many families were affected?
It is true that there are actually many sets of suitable treatment methods for hepatitis B. When the virus is active, what happens when the viral load increases, and what happens when the liver function is abnormal, there are some matching drugs to use.
Various combinations of drugs, multi-pronged approach.
But as mentioned before, the virus itself does not have an efficient way to kill the virus like antibiotics. Most of them are solved by inhibiting the action of various enzymes, or activating the interferon of the human body's virus mechanism, and ultimately eliminating the virus. Need to rely on the human body itself.
It can be said that the current treatment is to cooperate with the human body to suppress the virus as much as possible, reduce its damage to the liver, and rely on the strong compensatory ability of the liver to directly resist the past.
But even so, patients will still have a lot of troubles and even inconveniences after infection. This set of data that 80% of domestic liver cancer patients are caused by hepatitis B can actually fully illustrate the problem.
Perhaps on the surface, the patient has a normal life, has no impact on daily life, and does not show any symptoms on weekdays, but there is really news about this kind of drug, or it is official news, it still attracts a lot of attention, and even cheer.
Then everyone began to pay attention and inquire about the price, and finally saw the announcement directly on Umbrella's official website.
Considering the cost and research and development expenses, the cost of a course of treatment is 700 yuan. Most patients can solve the problem in one course of treatment. Patients with severe yang and active virus may need one or two more courses!
In fact, for Wang Yi, who doesn't care much about money, it doesn't matter how cheap it is.
However, if it is too cheap, it is easy to feel that the technology is ‘worthless’, which may cause additional trouble.
So after weighing it up, I chose this moderate price. Compared with the unit price of those sky-high-priced drugs, it is definitely only a fraction, and it can almost cure the disease without long-term medication.
But there are too many people to handle!
There are more than 350 million patients worldwide, and more than one million people die from it every year.
Even after it was approved in China and promoted by the official media, it wasn't long before the WHO also issued a statement claiming that it was a medical miracle!
This is another victory in the fight against viruses and has milestone significance!
At the same time, we hope that Umbrella can publish this technology to see if other viruses can be eliminated through similar means.
In this regard, many medical companies, experts, and scholars have also stood up and spoken out...
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For ordinary people, they don't care much about that kind of void game, and they can't see the danger behind it. Many people are more concerned about their own situation.
A Tao is such an ordinary person. At the age of 22, he married his girlfriend not long after graduating.
However, after a physical examination before he joined the company, he was shocked to discover that he had been infected with the hepatitis B virus at some point.
Because he was worried about his wife, who lived with him, he explained it to her as soon as he got home and took her for a test. The result was also positive.
For A Tao, this was like the sky falling. He was constantly blaming himself and falling into pain. People from his wife's family also constantly criticized A Tao and demanded compensation.
A Tao, who had always felt guilty, accepted the accusation and actively began to make amends.
It wasn't until a best friend of A Tao's wife couldn't stand it anymore that she secretly told A Tao that in fact, his wife had discovered the disease during a physical examination during college.
If there were no accidents, the source of A Tao's infection came from her wife, which directly confused A Tao, who had always blamed himself.
Then there was a pile of chicken feathers.
Divorced, unemployed, people become decadent.
Although protection policies for hepatitis B patients were introduced in 2009, 2011 and the next 22 years, employers are not allowed to test for five items of hepatitis B, even if it is voluntary.
But in fact, just like asking women about pregnancy, there is no way to prevent it.
Originally, hepatitis B patients were not allowed to work only in special jobs such as service and blood stations. Other normal employment physical examinations could only check liver function. As long as the patient's liver function was normal, there could be no employment discrimination.
But even some official agencies do not fully follow this point.
A Tao's original job failed. He believed that the amount of virus in his body was too much and that the virus was active, so he relied on a combination of drugs and active antiviral treatment to suppress the virus activity in two months.
When I joined the next company, I successfully passed the interview and entered the probation period.
However, when the probationary period was about to become a full-time job, the company arranged another physical examination as a ‘welfare’ for them!
Anyway, this item is included in the welfare, it’s up to you whether to check it or not!
Negligence?
Haha, in fact, it is equivalent to inspection...
There is no accident that people refuse to become regular employees on the grounds of being incompetent for the job. Even with so much protection, it still pales in comparison to the obvious contrast between strong and weak groups.
Discord in the family, frustration in love, obstacles in work, and all kinds of things happened one after another, making A Tao, who had just entered society, feel that the world in front of him had turned gray.
Until suddenly his cell phone rang, and he found out that it was his ex-wife's best friend, the one who told him about his ex-wife's situation so that he could get rid of self-blame.
"A Tao, have you watched the news broadcast? There is good news, great news! A specific drug for hepatitis B has been released, produced by Umbrella!"
For a time, the world that had turned gray was shattered, and it seemed that new colors were brought in all of a sudden.
Hepatitis B specific medicine?
Umbrella!
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Atao's situation is just one of the 94 million patients in the country, an ordinary one.
Groups of patients began to pour into the hospital, and the drugs that had been fully produced during the review stage were continuously transported by cold shipment to all parts of the country, directly to hospitals and epidemic prevention stations in various places.
One patient after another, different arrangements were made and the order was arranged according to the active status of the virus in the body and the different liver function conditions.
When every patient did the five hepatitis B exercises in the past, they felt some resistance, some fear, and some reluctance.
However, during the test this time, everyone had a smile on their face.
From now on, hepatitis B virus will be delisted!
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