So when Western drug and cosmetic firms look for new elixirs in rain forests or coral reefs, the poor countries from whence they come enjoy a cut of the action.

所以西方国家制药厂商和化装品公司在雨林或是珊瑚礁里寻找灵丹妙药的时候，那些他们所至的贫穷国家就在遭受创伤。

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WHO set up the world's first web-based system for tracking the activities of drug cheats in the Western Pacific Region in 2005.

2005年世卫组织建立了世界第一个以网络为基础的系统，追踪西太平洋区域的药物欺诈活动。

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Yes, I did say there that western medical therapy has its theoretical and empirical basis, so I think that a certain drug can be effective and it works immediate after you take it.

首先，我确实在那里说过，西医治病有一定的理论和实证基础，所以认为某一味药有效，而且服后很快见效。

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This permitted Indian drug companies to reverse-engineer Western pharmaceuticals without paying licensing fees.

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This might be seen as ironic in the light of western interest in such things as drug-donation programmes (in which drug companies give away their products in countries which cannot afford to buy them) and vaccine-purchase funds (which guarantee sales to firms that come up with effective new vaccines for poor-world diseases).

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In the 1990s several big pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer AG of Germany, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, formed alliances with Chinese research institutes or companies that specialized in traditional Chinese medicines, aiming to apply modern drug-hunting techniques to screen Chinese herbal medicines for potential Western blockbusters.

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