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Chapter 980 Selling Drugs to Europe (Part [-])
"If the smallpox vaccine is successfully developed, I don't know how many first batches will be produced..." Xiao Xiu'er said.

"It depends on how much the production cost is. This kind of vaccinia vaccine, which has a certain lethal rate, is really not easy to charge the people. Basically, the government can only provide the vaccine for free to make ordinary people willing to get vaccinated. If something goes wrong A sum of money is needed as a pension and a hush money." Chu Yun felt that it was not easy for the people to be vaccinated.

Even if they can be immune to smallpox virus for life by vaccination, and can completely expel smallpox virus from this land, ordinary people are not willing to risk their lives to get vaccinated.If ordinary people are willing to pay to get vaccinated, then there is no need to worry about the cost.As long as the cost is not unacceptable, it can be mass-produced.

"Will this project of ours cause financial troubles? If it will affect financial expenditure, we can delay it a little bit." Xiao Xiu'er knew that Chu Yun was short of various funds, so she said worriedly.

"Vaccination is related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. It's okay to invest part of the money. This is for the people and for the people. After the clinical trials are successful, we can try the vaccination in the capital and see the effect. The population of the capital is increasing. If there is an outbreak The smallpox virus may spread to the whole city, and dozens of people will die." Chu Yun had mixed feelings about the rapid development of the capital.

The capital has accelerated the urbanization process in the vicinity, and it is very likely that it will become a giant city, which will expand to tens of millions of people in the future. Chu Yun believes it.Such a huge city will bring a series of problems, such as fire, plague, law and order, flooding and so on.

"In addition to smallpox, there are cholera, plague, influenza, measles..." Xiao Xiu'er took stock of a series of diseases that were extremely terrible in this era.

These serious infectious diseases are not uncommon at all, and they may suddenly break out in various places at any time, but there are not many records of them in history books.

"What are you talking about?" Princess Sophia couldn't understand the meaning of "smallpox" in Chinese.

Chu Yun didn't know what the English word for smallpox was, so Aila had to convey it.

After Princess Sophia learned that it was smallpox, she exclaimed: "This disease is terrible. It may be second only to the Black Death that swept across Europe 300 years ago. There may be hundreds of thousands of people in Western countries every year. People are dying directly or indirectly from smallpox, and no doctor has a cure. Can you really have a cure for smallpox?"

"Accurately speaking, our vaccine is not used to treat smallpox, but to prevent smallpox infection. It will be useless when it is really infected. If a person is vaccinated, he will not be infected with a certain disease for a long time , Some precautions can last a lifetime." Chu Yun said.

"If there is such a drug, I think people will be willing to pay for it! If I am vaccinated, will I not be infected with smallpox in the future?" Princess Sophia knew the benefits of the vaccinia vaccine and wanted to be vaccinated.

"This is not acceptable. How many people or even dozens of people will die in every million people. You are the princess of Britain. If you were killed because of vaccination, how should I explain to your brother?" Chu Yun said to Princess Sophia. I admire the bravery, but this move is risky and prone to diplomatic conflicts.

"Only a few or dozens of people died out of a million people, so why would it not be my turn?" Princess Sophia said with a curled lip.

"It's hard to say. We try our best to keep the risks to a minimum, but we can't ignore any possible dangers," Chu Yun said.

"Mr. Chu, do you want to see me with rashes and mange on my face, and then go to heaven in pain?" Princess Sophia said.

"It's not the same thing... If the fatality rate of the tested vaccine is very small, maybe you sign the certificate of life and death, and we dare to vaccinate you." Chu Yun said.

"If it is really useful, please be sure to ship it to us in Britain and other kingdoms in Europe. They need this medicine very much. You can make money, and the local people can also be free from disease. I think this is for the benefit of both parties. There are good things.” Princess Sofia thought of tens of millions of people in Europe who were threatened by the smallpox virus, and naturally saw the broad prospects of the vaccinia vaccine.

Not to mention its pharmaceutical value, the commercial value alone is quite worthy of recognition.In a market of tens of millions of people, even if you earn ten coppers from each person, there are hundreds of millions of coppers.

Of course Chu Yun thought about earning gold and silver overseas, not only in Europe, Ottoman, Mughal and other places could not escape the torture of smallpox, together it is a drug market with hundreds of millions of people!

This is just a vaccinia vaccine drug. If antibiotics, antimalarial drugs, tetanus immune globulin, and insulin are produced in the future, each drug will have a market of several 10 taels of silver every year.

Diabetes, tetanus, appendicitis, dystocia, tuberculosis, etc. were fatal diseases in ancient times. If these diseases can be controlled, it will not only help advance the process of human civilization to contend with bacteria and viruses, but also continuously benefit from it.As Sophia said, there is no contradiction between curing diseases and making money, the key is to grasp the balance point.

"Our smallpox vaccine will definitely complete research and development and clinical trials before Western companies set off for Europe. At that time, Li Jinde's fleet will bring at least [-] copies of vaccinia vaccine to Britain. We will offer a fair market price and strive to increase The well-being of both parties." Chu Yun thought to himself, if he worked hard to develop the vaccinia vaccine, it would not be too much to earn ten or twenty times the gross profit, right?
It is best to be able to divide vaccinia vaccines into grades, grades, grades, and grades. Although the effects are the same, rich people will choose more expensive vaccines and earn more profits.Chu Yun has already figured out a strategy to recover the cost.

Earning gold and silver from Western countries by selling drugs is used to provide free universal smallpox vaccination for the people in their own territory, which is equivalent to transferring costs in disguise.However, Europe, which does not even have a vaccination method for vaccinia, will definitely be very enthusiastic about the vaccinia vaccine after knowing this magical drug, and will not worry about being unable to make a profit.

If it wasn't for the complete removal of the smallpox virus from the history of civilization on earth, Chu Yun would even limit the annual export volume of vaccinia vaccine to obtain huge profits.But only vaccinating the rich and ignoring the poor, the smallpox virus will still spread among the poor, and even produce drug-resistant variants.This is why the world where Chu Yun lived in before tried his best to cut off the spread of a certain deadly virus on a global scale.The trade-off between profit and conscience is always a test for the drug market.

(End of this chapter)