chagas

Therefore with the us wording patent-knockoff chagas cures would be allowed in a chagas emergency.

The US is requiring Lat-Am countries to enforce US patents on Chagas treatments, rather than let them be manufactured locally at lower cost.

> with the us wording patent-knockoff chagas cures would be allowed in a chagas emergency.

If there were no end, the US would oppose the whole section, not just the inclusion of chagas.

This is a reference to Chagas disease, a form of trypanosomiasis, a parasitic disease primarily affecting Latin America.

Edit: As for chagas, it's scary but not something worth blowing too far out of proportion either.

Not for the people who would end up dying of Chagas because they can't afford medicine.

Are you saying the US objection was to allow generics treatment of Chagas in any form?

So, when there is a Chagas vaccine, the Latin-Am government can throw more money at the pharma company who is producing the vaccine.

I know very little of chagas disease, but it seems early treatment is the most effective treatment.

Meanwhile, antibiotic resistances are going to be a public health crisis, and Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and malaria are major killers in the developing world.

FYI - here is the WHO fact sheet on Chagas disease.

>> Here, "[US oppose: chagas]" indicates the word "chagas" is disputed, with the United States opposing its inclusion in the treaty.

Here the US seems to be opposing the rights of Lat-Am countries to use emergency measures to protect their citizens against "Chagas disease" because that would deny its pharma companies a lucrative & desperate market.

> chagas I'm also a layman and accept there are gaping holes in my knowledge, which is why I asked you a genuine question: "What do you suggest is the mechanism of action behind that?".

There weren't any talks I saw where anyone was actually running Julia in space, but Ronan Chagas' "Attitude control subsystem development using Julia" and Corbin Klett's "Realtime embedded systems testing with Julia" both get pretty close and point out reasons why you wouldn't quite want to run Julia on a satellite or plane just yet.

Chagas disease is the one that scares me, since it seems easy to contract and not know it.

Chagas disease is a class of trypanosomiasis which currently the medical establishment doesn't know how to treat.

How is the pharma industry benefiting from the US striking out Chagas?