Chapter 339: Saving the Dead and Helping the Wounded

The Merck Group, which owns the rights to produce streptomycin, was founded in 1668, with a history of three hundred and fifty years, and is headquartered in the city of Darmstadt, Germany, the group is mainly dedicated to innovative pharmaceuticals.

Originating as a German pharmaceutical company, Merck established a branch in New York due to the success of its export business in the United States. In eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the American branch of Merck was officially founded. The American branch of Merck was confiscated by the United States during the First World War. It became an independent company. Today the two companies share the same name, but are not otherwise related.

It should be said that, as a descendant, the United States also has the British Empire to learn from the place. Such was the move to confiscate German companies while the World War was on.

Alan Wilson remembers that, because of patent issues, Britain used the Krupp Group’s patents during World War I, and paid Krupp royalties after the casualty-ridden World War I ended, and then what? World War II was fought again.

The only thing Alan Wilson remembers about the Merck Group in the United States is that it promoted the Hepatitis B vaccine in China. From this point of view this Merck Group naturally made a contribution, but the premise was that China actually had the technology for the hepatitis B vaccine, and on the premise of having the research technology for the hepatitis B vaccine, the Merck Group promoted the hepatitis B vaccine after entering China.

As early as the 1970s, Tao Qimin developed the hepatitis B vaccine, but it just wasn’t promoted hard enough or fast enough, and without advertising, it was even less well known. The United States is a country with a very mature market economy, good at using commercial promotion and advertising.

According to international practice, the Hepatitis B vaccine must be inoculated in gorillas to confirm its effectiveness before it can be inoculated in human beings. However, in the 1970s, the experimental conditions at that time were rudimentary and the gorillas could not be afforded. The research team then experimented on their own bodies and took the risk of studying the vaccine.

With alternative technologies available in their own right, pharmaceutical companies are not an existence that can sit back and watch everyone die for money. This can be seen in the example of the Hepatitis B vaccine.

The promotion of the Hepatitis B vaccine after Merck KGaA entered China was based on this premise. It can’t be said that it didn’t contribute, promoting vaccine promotion with large amounts of money does contribute, it’s just nowhere near as noble as one might think.

And now, British India is not this technology, let the Merck Group pull down to do **. Merck Group, which has the right to produce streptomycin, is certainly not coming over to do ** this time.

The purpose of coming, naturally, was to be attracted by the greatly cost-saving drug trials. Now have fought two world wars, like the United States has just ascended to the stage of the world’s hegemony, can’t be their own ass shit, every day than than than chanted I laugh that the United Kingdom is tactless, the Soviet Union is less intelligent it.

After the Second World War, the United States also began to pay attention to the national image of the country before not too much attention. Large-scale drug trials were regulated, but with that came an escalation of risk, which was a considerable burden on pharmaceutical companies.

But isn’t there Alan Wilson, the civil servant ready to do the world a favor? Measuring India’s material resources, tying up drug companies, and urging people to solve this problem for Merck.

Anyway, the people of British India live so chaotically that they don’t even know they’re alive, and the significant advantage of low human rights is perfect for making a contribution to the world in terms of drug trials.

India in the twenty-first century is naturally unique as a country that still preserves the diversity of many diseases that have been eradicated all over the world, of which the figure of half of the world’s deaths from tuberculosis is proof enough that India is a reputable power.

In later times, many infectious diseases existed in India that had long been eradicated in other countries and had caused problems for other countries. For example, there was an outbreak of smallpox in the Soviet Union in the 1950s.

Soviet artist Alexei Kokorekin returned from India and landed in Moscow, during which time he had symptoms of a moderate cold, but since it was a cold winter’s day, the symptoms seemed normal to many people. However, in the evening of the same day, Kokorekin’s temperature skyrocketed and he developed a violent cough and generalized pain.

The next day, he went to the doctor and was diagnosed with the flu. The doctor’s prescription medication didn’t help, though, and Kokorekin also had a current rash all over his body, but was diagnosed with allergies.

A young doctor, however, after learning that the patient had been to India, cautiously suggested that such symptoms could be caused by smallpox, but her advice was not taken.

After a few days in the same room with other patients with influenza, at the end of the month Alexei Kokorekin died, and during this time the doctors did not find the real cause of his death.

However, shortly after Kokorekin’s death, several other patients in the hospital developed similar symptoms: fever, cough and rash. Only then did the hospital hastily invite specialists, and the final conclusion was shocking: there was an outbreak of smallpox in Moscow.

As a matter of fact, while in India, Alexei Kokorekin attended the cremation of a recently deceased friend, and even touched the body. There, the “Patient Zero” was suffering from this deadly disease.

Half a month later, news of the smallpox outbreak was reported to the Soviet leadership, and Moscow immediately mobilized all its resources – hospitals, clinics, police, and the famous KGB – to search Moscow around the clock for potentially dangerous vectors.

Everyone who had met and spoken with Kokorekin, those who had contacted him and received gifts from him from India, and even the one hundred and fifty university students who sat in class with Kokorekin’s daughter, Valeria, were taken to hospitals.

More than nine thousand people were quarantined during this period, while the hospital where “Patient Zero” was being treated was blocked off by a special decree, and a large emergency stockpile for war situations was allowed to be used.

In the fight against the smallpox epidemic, the entire health sector was mobilized, from medical staff to medical students. They were working from morning to night to find any suspected pathogens and to disinfect entire cities.

And the decisive measure to prevent the spread of smallpox was the vaccination of all the inhabitants of the Moscow region, for which the Soviet Union required all Muscovites, even the dying ones, to be vaccinated, and in the following week more than nine and a half million people were vaccinated, an unprecedented action in history.

So mass epidemics, in effect, are useless against the Soviet system countries, and if the Soviet system countries of Eastern Europe were still in existence, the most powerful epidemics, at best, would only spread half the world, and the other half of a different world would be alive and well. Realizing what Khrushchev said, “We’ll bury you in the end ……”

Such an excellent virus petri dish is the best testing ground for various drugs, in which Alan Wilson has full confidence.

Find a place, Allen Wilson and Merck Group’s marketing manager Ronald Korman met, face with you guys opened up the expression, the Merck Group’s British India trip to express the welcome.

Throughout the meeting, he has made outstanding contributions to the world’s pharmaceutical companies, expressed great admiration for the industry, which occupies nearly one-fifth of the gross national product of the United States in the twenty-first century. What the world’s first military spending, but is just a sprinkle of water, really want to industrial salvation also of the medical industry.

This kind of industry is worthy of Allen Wilson’s admiration, he did not dare to say that everyone is afraid of death, but the fear of death is definitely a minority. An industry if you can make a dead man’s fortune, this industry definitely has development, no doubt, Merck Group is exactly such a company.

Even he felt that he should let Pamela Mountbatten think about it, go to Germany to see if you can copy the talent of the medical company, it would be a pity if such a large industry did not try to make an effort, and it is definitely more than what airliners have development.

Both sides took their seats, Allen Wilson heard Ronald’s purpose of coming to British India, and immediately said that the environment here is very suitable, “Respect to Mr. Ronald, it can be said that all over the world, there is no place more suitable for the medical company to produce results than this place, I use my personality to make a guarantee that what is said is all true.”

“Oh?” Ronald was noncommittal, and had to admit that this was what he had come to British India for. The drug trial stage was already an over-investment for the US-based pharmaceutical companies. And after Roosevelt’s New Deal, certain things that could have been done years ago were not as convenient to do now.

Even a pharmaceutical company such as the Merck Group is not easily able to walk away in one piece if there is a major medical incident.

Not to mention the fact that pharmaceutical companies are in a sense also companies that give confidence to the living, and if there is a major medical malpractice? It would be a huge blow to the company’s image.

Alan Wilson happened to also say this, “Drug trials often require a large number of volunteers, if something goes wrong, it would be a major medical malpractice. Not to mention the huge compensation, for a pharmaceutical company, once its image has taken a hit and is remembered, it’s not a matter of money.”

“British India doesn’t have this problem, Merck Group came to British India to save lives, if you didn’t come, these Indians would have died from other epidemics as well, you came over to save India. Even if there is an extremely minor incident, word of what is going on here won’t reach the mainland, and no Americans will know about it.”

Alan Wilson’s words could be said to have spoken to the heart of the representatives of the Le Merck Group, and this was the purpose for which they were willing to make the trip in person, and although these words were very appetizing, Ronald still pretended to be reserved and said, “The main thing is to save the lives of the dead and the wounded.”

“Yes, yes, the main thing is to save lives, the people of the subcontinent desperately need you to save lives.” Alan Wilson immediately followed the other party’s words, emphasizing the significance of saving lives.