Chapter 510: The Silent War
The driving force behind NL Genetics' technological development is obviously not to save lives, but to make money and profits.
Clive's arrogant answer is very marketable in the West, and everyone takes it for granted, and the gene companies have spent a lot of energy and time to develop a vaccine, and it will definitely pay off.
Xiao Chu said: "The WHO has spent hundreds of millions of meters to purchase NL's vaccines, and Xia Guo, as a member of the WHO, has also funded a lot of money. ”
"This is a world of the jungle, and many countries in the affected areas are unable to procure vaccines from PR because of financial difficulties, and even if they know that there is such a vaccine to stop the spread of the disease, they can't do anything about it. ”
The media in an African country drew a cartoon satirizing NL Genetics, in which the boss of NL sat in the boss's chair with the vaccine in his hand, looking at the vast African continent, where people are being destroyed by Ebola.
"Don't think that Western vaccine companies are only ruthless to Africans, but also to Xia people. Xiao Chu has collected the products and business maps of the world's major vaccine companies, she said: "Pneumonia vaccine, BCG vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine, polio vaccine, flu vaccine and other vaccines that Xia people must inject, the best technology is also in the hands of Western pharmaceutical companies, they are also looking at the demand of Xia country, we also have to spend a lot of money to import." Not to mention spending money, you have to pray that they are willing to sell. ”
Xiao Chu gave a data chart, she said: "Take Gram Company (fictitious don't sit down) as an example, the company's best vaccine is the meningitis vaccine, and the annual vaccine sales can reach 1.3 billion meters, and this company also has business in Xia Guo." As a parent of a child, I am definitely willing to get vaccinated from abroad. So the introduction of these vaccines in Xia Guo is not only to spend money to buy, but also to open up the pharmaceutical market in Xia Guo to them, and even give them quite excellent conditions. ”
"At present, most of the vaccine and even pharmaceutical markets in Xia Guo are under the control of Western companies, not to mention earning us hundreds of billions of dollars every year, we actually don't have any safety at all. ”
Xiao Chu gave another set of data, and she was receiving: "What about the pharmaceutical companies in Xia Kingdom? Unfortunately, almost none of them have been able to gain a foothold overseas, and even the traditional Chinese medicine that we are proud of was banned by many Western countries a few years ago. Compared with Western pharmaceutical companies' understanding of Xia people's genes and health, our understanding of Westerners is almost blank. It's good that it's peacetime, but if something happens one day, this disadvantage is fatal. ”
Xiao Ming remembers seeing a news story when he was in high school, a Chinese medicine hall in a European country was seized, and a Chinese medicine doctor in Xia Guo was also detained for illegally practicing medicine.
This is the attitude of European countries towards TCM.
Xiao Chu said: "In the past 30 years, we have had many explosive epidemics and cancer outbreaks in recent years, but in fact, we dare not speculate. However, the data in my hand tells me that some Western pharmaceutical companies have almost figured out the characteristics of the Xia ethnic genes. ”
Xiao Chu said: "Why do some gene companies in the United States and Maple Leaf countries spend huge sums of money to develop Ebola vaccines thousands of miles away, and why do Toyo introduce Ebola into national laboratories, they are not to help Africans, but to avoid biological wars." ”
Of course, Xiao Ming understood what Xiao Chu was pointing to, and he said: "So this time, I agree to use the Life Science Laboratory Nan'anfei, and the Life Science Institute should also have some action." ”
Xiao Ming continued to look at the video, and Clive was still talking on the video, and said that NL had treated three children free of charge.
When he said this, Clive was proud, as if he was already a savior.
Can you only boast about the free treatment of three children?
Xia Guo's medical treatment has not boasted like Clive in Africa for more than ten years, treating hundreds of thousands of children.
Clive looks down on the infected like a god, and he can easily decide whether the infected live or die......
A week later, Gao Siqi and Zheng Xuanyu were finally liberated from the quarantine center.
Xiao Ming personally drove the Tianhe Tiger Leap to the isolation center to greet the two.
Zheng Xuanyu gave him a big hug after seeing Xiao Ming, and the experience in the epidemic area and what he thought about during the week in the isolation room made Zheng Xuanyu understand a lot of the meaning of life.
Gao Siqi also gave Xiao Ming a hug, and then turned his head sideways to Zheng Xuanyu and said, "I'm in friendship!"
Zheng Xuanyu couldn't help but smile and said, "It doesn't matter what you are, some people are happy." ”
"Go!" Gao Siqi pestled Zheng Xuanyu's head and said, "Nonsense." ”
"Let's go, eat hot pot, I know you haven't eaten comfortably in it in the past few days. Xiao Ming took the initiative to treat him.
Zheng Xuanyu said pitifully: "It's that I didn't eat comfortably, almost didn't eat well? ”
Xiao Ming touched Zheng Xuanyu's head and said, "Have a full meal, rest for two days, and then go to the laboratory to sort out the materials." ”
Gao Siqi also said: "This time our team has a way of thinking, and Ebola is actually not so difficult to overcome. ”
Gao Siqi and Zheng Xuanyu took a two-day break before plunging into intense work, Zheng Xuanyu didn't even have time to go home to visit his parents, and they had to analyze all the genetic sequences of Ebola between the Spring Festival and find out how the disease was expressed.
This time, Pangu Technology's future office has brought great convenience to the life science laboratory.
The experimenters of Nan'an Non-Life Science Laboratory and the staff of Jiangcheng Life Laboratory work together through virtual laboratories and offices in the virtual community.
The specific method is that the Nan'an Fei Laboratory conducts experiments in accordance with the requirements of the Jiangcheng Laboratory, and Gao Siqi and Zheng Xuanyu can watch the experiment at all times through the virtual community and collect the data of the experiment.
After getting the data, with the help of Super Xiaochu, Jiangcheng Laboratory will analyze the data, get more information, and then formulate the next experimental goal.
The biggest difficulty in fighting Ebola at the moment is that the human immune system cannot recognize it, and when it can, there are not enough weapons to defeat it, which is similar to HIV.
The treatment currently being developed by life science laboratories is to somehow get the human immune system to recognize Ebola in the first place and attack Ebola in a way that is still effective.
The problem in the laboratory is that the immune system recognizes the characteristics of the virus by recognizing the glycoprotein on the surface of the virus, and Ebola is very smart, it does not complete a replication cycle, and some amino acid structures will change, which is equivalent to creating a new virus, and the human immune system cannot recognize the "new" virus that has changed the amino acid structure.