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They could patent it and charge $5000 a course to people who are suffering from resistant bacteria. It's the American way.



If that's what's necessary for the company to develop such an antibiotic, why not? State-of-the-art cancer drugs can cost that ore more. I'd rather pay $5k and live, to not being able to do anything.




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