ADM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Onchocerciasis, Corporate Social Responsibility, Black Fly
23 Feb 2016
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Week 4: corporate social responsibility (chapter 7 & 8) Midterm: 25 mc each are two marks and 5 short answers 10 marks each finish at 8:30. Merck is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies. Created parasite for curing animals so he thought he wanted to create an anti parasite to cure humans with river blindness in remote parts of the world. River blindness is a parasite that people get from the black fly after getting bit which causes an infection where larvae grows under the skin which makes people with the disease want to itch their eye. It also causes some people to commit suicide due to the fact that they cannot handle the itchiness. One of the largest drug manufacturers in the world. Government: since everyone brought up the issue of the motto. They are clearly working for merk for a reason. Dr. vagelos approves r&d funding potential treatment of river blindness.
