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Date: Sat, May 20, 2017 at 2:00 AM
Subject: FYI - Benzathine penicillin shortages are bringing back diseases all over the world — Quartz
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For-profit medicine will save us all!  The invisible hand of free-market medicine will be a helping one!
Oh wait...

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"Over the years though, penicillin descended from a wonder drug used on everything to a cheap, old antibiotic that pharmaceutical companies decided was no longer worth their while to produce for an ever-shrinking group of indications"

https://qz.com/984705/syphilis-is-on-the-rise-because-penicillin-isnt-profitable/