Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
11-9-2023
Graduation Year
2025
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB), an illness caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is the deadliest disease in human history. In the 1950s and 1960s, scientists developed several drugs that could treat TB. These developments meant that TB became a curable disease. However, TB remains a terrible epidemic in poor communities around the world. About 4,000 people die from TB every day, with over eighty percent of those deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review on November 9, 2023. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above.
Recommended Citation
Bier, Rachel, "Writer v. Big Pharma: How John Green, Author and YouTuber, Fought the Evergreening of a Drug Patent" (2023). CICLR Online. 91.
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/ciclr-online/91
