This time to 1,000 times the price? "Villain" Shkreli the pharmaceutical industry but also to stir up trouble!

September this year, there is a field of medicine case maxed out US media circles, the hero is a man named Martin Shkreli the former hedge fund manager. This man child pharmaceutical company founded Turing (Turing Pharmaceuticals) to the price of $ 55 million from the state benefits acquired laboratory called Dara aspirin drug, which is a 62-year-old mainly for toxoplasmosis drugs. Then overnight, Shkreli the price of the drug from $ 13.5 per piece, up to $ 750, triggering a panic in the North American market. Now, the greed of the young man began to prepare the operation next surge of drugs.
This time he aimed at a called benzo yl acetate (benznidazole) drugs. Benzo yl acetate is the treatment of Chagas disease (Chagas disease) of acute drug of choice. Here to give you a brief introduction of Chagas disease, a disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, the main media for the blood-sucking insect hunting bugs, Chagas disease doctors discovered in 1908, so called Chagas disease. The main risk area of ​​Chagas disease in Central and South America, all known as American trypanosomiasis, is a typical tropical diseases, there are about 20 million infected persons. Acute phase of Chagas disease will develop fever, facial edema, lymph node inflammation, anemia and other symptoms, the chronic phase may be myocarditis, heart failure, giant esophagitis, megacolon lung, brain embolism, sudden death occurred.