How a #BigPharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving #Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits
A vaccine against #tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, has never been closer to reality, with the potential to save millions of lives.
But its development slowed after its corporate owner #GSK focused on more profitable vaccines.
Johnson & Johnson is poised to kill hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people with treatable #Tuberculosis by exploiting loopholes in order to extend their monopoly on the drug #Bedaquiline after already having had 20 years of patent protection.
J&J think you won’t care because it’ll mostly be impoverished people in poor countries who will die. Prove them wrong.
Johnson and Johnson is trying to extend their patent on life saving tuberculosis medication. This will result in 6 million unnecessary deaths. Call them out. Spread the word.
"We're starting to see forms of tuberculosis that resist antibiotics. Those have been rising since the 1980s, but now they're becoming more common. If you catch one of those, your odds of dying go up to about 30 percent compared to TB's normal 90 percent survival rate (with treatment). Researchers at Washington University found that drug-resistant tuberculosis disarms your #ImmuneSystem. You don't just get over #tuberculosis. It takes months to fight off the infection and recover. Even if you survive, there's often lasting damage.
You might already have #TB and just don't know it. Health agencies estimate that up to 13 million people in the U.S. alone have latent (hidden) tuberculosis infections. They have the bacteria in them, but they don't feel sick. A latent infection can always become active. "For persons whose immune systems are weak, especially those with HIV infection, the risk of developing TB is considerably higher than for persons with normal immune systems."" #covid https://www.okdoomer.io/covid-trashed-our-immunity/
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis.
Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here.
It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years.
Today the building is abandoned.
Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere.
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. 2023/07/30 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. 2023/07/30 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. 2023/07/30 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
@Brad This rise in #tuberculosis cases could very well be related to the now fairly well documented weakening of immune systems from surviving a #covid infection.
Those are the words of Natalie, a Covid survivor who went hiking on her wedding day. Now she spends her life in a darkened bedroom. Meanwhile, a world-class trail runner named Emilia kills herself after a Covid infection leaves her with an unstable heart. Around the world, smart talented young men & women are losing their careers after #Covid ravages their organs, their brains, their #immune systems. Some of them will recover. Some might benefit from treatment. Many of them will never be the same.
These were musicians, writers, scientists, athletes.
They were the future.
So, we have a virus that's incredibly contagious. It kills some people immediately. For everyone else, it damages your brain. It damages your heart and blood vessels. It damages your immune system, making you vulnerable to other diseases. It shortens your telomeres. It ages you." https://www.okdoomer.io/its-that-bad/
2/ "Every infection makes things worse. If we let #Covid continue to spread like this, it will eventually turn every single healthy person into a disabled one. We're watching it happen. It doesn't even have to reach that point to upend our daily lives. There's already an intense labor shortage, so bad that states are rolling back child labor laws & putting 14-year-olds to work. We're seeing Adderall shortages & surges in nootropics (brain drugs) as people try to self-medicate their undiagnosed neurological disorders. Test scores are down. Traffic accidents are up. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, worker productivity is "declining at the fastest rate in 75 years." Meanwhile, diseases from #pneumonia to #tuberculosis are filling up ERs & emptying pharmacies. Everywhere you look, you see the impact of Covid." https://www.okdoomer.io/its-that-bad/
Tuberculosis is a bigger threat than COVID-19, but it gets less attention. The bacterial infection kills 1.4 million people every year, more than any other infectious disease. COVID-19 has disrupted the efforts to diagnose and treat TB, putting millions of lives at risk. #Tuberculosis#Pandemic#Healthhttps://time.com/6317647/tuberculosis-pandemic-threat/
Mongolia continues to face the spread of TB, particularly in the low-income population. Tuberculosis (TB), a long-standing scourge that has afflicted humanity for millennia, remains a formidable global health challenge. Despite Mongolia’s pledge to combat tuberculosis at the 2018 United Nations High-Level Meeting on the issue,...
There's a company that could save an enormous amount of lives and suffering – just by reducing by a tiny bit their revenue of 24 Billion USD a year!
#Danaher makes an incredible test for #tuberculosis and other terrible diseases, which gives people a chance to survive and thrive after infection. But they mark them up by 200-400 %! Making it impossible for most people who actually need them to get them!
wtf 😷🐮 — “Health officials have begun contact tracing after a person at the University of California Davis campus was diagnosed with a contagious form of #tuberculosis ” from @DrIanWeissman
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis.
Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here.
It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years.
Today the building is abandoned.
Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere.
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. July 2023 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. July 2023 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
This building was built from 1901 to 1904 by the "Allgemeine Knappschaftsverein" Bochum as a hospital for the treatment of lung diseases and especially tuberculosis. Until 1986, lung diseases of miners from Bochum and the Ruhr area were treated here. It is estimated that about 50,000 miners were treated here in 82 years. Today the building is abandoned. Situated in the middle of the forest, it is so quiet today that you can sense the ghosts of the people who were treated here for 82 years - a ghostly and almost mystical atmosphere. July 2023 Christoph Koester | #Meschede
"At telephone follow up on she reported that her symptoms lasted 11 days. Seven weeks later she presented again with a two-day history of right-side pleuritic chest pain, cough, subjective fever and anorexia.
[...] This case appears to confirm the concerns that the CD4+ T-cell depletion associated with COVID-19 may promote the development of active tuberculosis from latent infection much like HIV does."
An #AI tool potentially could detect #COVID19 and #tuberculosis from a person’s cough. it's the first model trained on more than 300 million clips of coughing, breathing and throat clearing from YouTube videos. I'm wondering how they handled the ad breaks...
Mongolia’s looming tuberculosis crisis (thediplomat.com)
Mongolia continues to face the spread of TB, particularly in the low-income population. Tuberculosis (TB), a long-standing scourge that has afflicted humanity for millennia, remains a formidable global health challenge. Despite Mongolia’s pledge to combat tuberculosis at the 2018 United Nations High-Level Meeting on the issue,...