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Nature 434, 132-136 (10 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/434132a; Published online 9 March 2005
Counterfeit pharmaceuticals: Murder by medicine
Peter Aldhous1
- Peter Aldhous is Nature's chief news & features editor.
Abstract
Across the developing world, people are dying after being peddled fake pharmaceuticals. Peter Aldhous reports from southeast Asia, where scientists, doctors and regulators battle against organized crime.
Sam Veasna's loss is still keenly felt in Cambodia, five years after his untimely death. In a desperately poor country where most people are preoccupied with the daily struggle for survival, he was a tenacious field biologist and passionate advocate for conservation whose work made a real difference — until he fell prey to malaria.
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