Chapter 185 Hepatitis B Delisting
After Wang Yi went to Africa, he came back and heard another piece of news from Lin Shiqin: Umbrella's hepatitis B virus-specific immunoglobulin had passed the approval!
This time is different from the previous two stone-dissolving drugs. This time it is a direct injectable medicine, which can only be injected in hospitals and epidemic prevention stations. Although Umbrella did not actively promote it this time due to the properties of the medicine, it only updated the product information.
But this time it was the official media who personally took part in the publicity!
It even made the 7pm news!
"The 'Hepatitis B virus-specific immunoglobulin' developed by Umbrella has passed the review. This drug is effective for people infected with the hepatitis B virus."
It was a very ordinary statement, a very brief explanation, just as usual , but after all this it caused an uproar across the country!
China is a hotbed of hepatitis B virus infection!
Even though the vaccine has been widely used, there are still nearly 100 million infected people, almost one in ten people. What kind of ratio is this?
How many families were affected?
Indeed, there are actually multiple suitable combination treatments for hepatitis B now. There are matching drugs for what to do during the virus active period, when the virus level increases, and when liver function is abnormal.
Various combination medications, a multi-pronged approach.
But as mentioned earlier, viruses themselves do not have an efficient way to kill them like antibiotics. Most of the solutions are achieved by inhibiting the action of various enzymes, or activating the body's interferon anti-virus mechanism. Ultimately, the body must rely on itself to eliminate the virus.
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 liver's own powerful compensatory ability to directly fight it.
Even so, patients will still face . The data that 80% of liver cancer patients in China are caused by hepatitis B can fully illustrate the problem.
Maybe on the surface the patients are already leading normal lives, with no impact on their daily lives and they won't show any signs of illness on weekdays, but when there is news about this kind of drug, or when the official news is released, it still attracts a lot of attention and even cheers.
Then everyone started paying attention and asking about the price, and finally saw the announcement directly on Umbrella's official website.
Taking into account the cost and R&D expenses, the cost of one course of treatment is 700 yuan. Most patients can solve the problem with one course of treatment. Patients with hepatitis B virus and those in the active stage of the virus may need one or two more courses of treatment!
In fact, for Wang Yi, who doesn’t care money, it doesn’t matter if it’s cheaper.
However, if it is too cheap, it is easy for people to feel that this technology is "not worth the money", which may lead to additional trouble.
So after weighing the pros and cons, I decided to choose 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 the need for long-term medication.
But there are too many people!
There are more than 350 million patients worldwide, and more than one million people die each year.
Even after it was approved here in the country and personally promoted by the official media, the WHO also issued a statement shortly afterwards, claiming that this was a medical miracle!
This is another victory in humanity’s fight against viruses and is of milestone significance!
At the same time, I hope Umbrella can publish this technology to see if other viruses can be eliminated through similar means.
In response to this, many medical companies, experts, and scholars have also spoken out...
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For ordinary people, they would not care much about that kind of empty game because they cannot see the danger behind it. Many people are more concerned about their own situation.
A Tao is such an ordinary person. He was 22 years old and got married to his girlfriend not long after graduation.
However, after a physical examination before he started working, he was shocked to find that he had been infected with the hepatitis B virus without knowing when.
Because he was worried about his wife who lived with him, he told her the truth as soon as he got home and took her for a check-up, and the result showed that she was also positive.
For A Tao, this was like the sky falling down. He kept blaming himself and fell into agony. People from his wife's family also came to accuse A Tao and demand compensation.
A Tao, who had always felt guilty, accepted the blame and actively began to make amends.
It was not until one of A Tao’s wife’s close friends could no longer bear it that she secretly told A Tao that his wife had actually been diagnosed with the disease during a physical examination in college.
If nothing unexpected happened, the source of A Tao's infection came from his wife, which made A Tao, who had always felt very guilty, confused.
What followed was a complete mess.
The marriage ended, the job failed, and the person became depressed.
Although protection policies for hepatitis B patients were introduced in 2009, 2011 and the next 22 years , employers are not allowed to conduct five hepatitis B tests, even on a voluntary basis.
But in fact, just like asking women about pregnancy, there is no way to eliminate it.
Originally, the only jobs where hepatitis B patients are not allowed to work are military service and special jobs like blood stations. Other normal pre-employment physical examinations can only check liver function. As long as the patient's liver function is normal, there can be no employment discrimination.
But even some official agencies do not fully follow this.
A Tao's original job failed. He thought that there were too many viruses in his body and the virus was active, so he relied on combination medication 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 they were about to be converted to regular employees after their probation period, the company arranged a physical examination as a 'benefit' for them!
Anyway, this item is included in the welfare benefits, it depends on whether you check it or not!
Not checking?
Haha, actually it is already equivalent to inspection...
It is not surprising that they were refused permanent employment on the grounds of being incompetent for the job. Even with so many protections, it still pales in comparison with the obvious contrast between the strong and weak groups.
Family discord, love failure, work setbacks, all kinds of things came one after another, making A Tao, who had just entered the society, feel that the world in front of him had turned gray.
Until suddenly his cell phone rang, and he found out it was his ex-wife's best friend, the one who told him about his ex-wife's situation and helped him get over the self-blame.
"A Tao, have you watched the news? There is good news, great news! A special medicine for hepatitis B has been released, produced by Umbrella!"
For a moment, the world that had turned gray and white was shattered, and it seemed to have brought new colors.
Specific medicine for hepatitis B?
Umbrella!
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A Tao's case is just one of the 94 million patients in the country, an ordinary one.
Batches of patients began to flock to the hospital, and the drugs that had been fully produced during the review stage were continuously transported to all parts of the country by cold transportation, directly to hospitals and epidemic prevention stations in various places.
One by one, the patients were arranged and prioritized according to the activity of the virus in their bodies and their liver function conditions.
Every patient had some resistance, fear, and unwillingness in their hearts when doing the five tests for hepatitis B.
However, during this test, everyone had a smile on their face.
From now on, the hepatitis B virus will be removed from the list!
