Antibiotics, profit not need

[steve colborn]

I have just watched the BBC breakfast show, in which they were discussing the need for "new" types of antibiotics to combat ever more drug resistant strains of bacteria. Information was mentioned, that 25,000 people died in Europe because of this, 5000 in the U.K. alone last year.

What made me sick, was that the discussion centred around it not being "profitable" for drug companies to spend time and money on new drugs, because when they were created, they would be "left on the shelf", to be used as a drug of last resort, thereby negating the profits that could be gained if these new antibiotics were given out like smarties. A problem that if not solved, could lead to the unnecessary deaths of millions, left to the mercy of profit!

If this doesn't prove to people the utter calousness, selfishness and insanity of Capitalism, what will?

[alanjjohnstone]

First raised by our blog back in April 2011http://www.socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2011/04/return-of-disease.htmlAgain in January 2013http://www.socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2013/01/profits-not-peoples-needs.htmlYet again in November 2013http://www.socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2013/11/no-profit-no-research.htmland just a few months ago in May 2014 http://www.socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2014/05/bad-news-for-everybody.html

[steve colborn]

Thanks, I'll look at the links. It would be good if the Party could send out a press release, directly related to this topic and Camerons comments, in short saying, "this news item validates the SPGB position held since 1904, of 'no profit no production' ".Steve Colborn.

[alanjjohnstone]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/23/cdc-head-age-antibiotic-resistance-nighThe latest warning issued by head of US Public Health

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