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analyst Profile| Send Message| ( followers)    MRSA is a scary,
scary thing. It infects you through an open wound and gives you
lesions and boils. It is resistant to conventional antibiotics,
and if it gets into your system past your skin, it can kill you.
The leading medication against MRSA is Zyvox by Pfizer (PFE).
The cheapest price for Zyvox I could find selling legally online
is $79.82 per pill. Most MRSA patients will get it through their
insurance company which will probably make it a bit cheaper, but
$80 a pill is still outrageous considering the number of pills
in an average treatment schedule, which is twice a day orally
for 14 days. That's over $2,200 a patient just for the
medication, and you know what they say about stopping
antibiotics too early. It's a very bad idea, especially when
dealing with a potentially deadly infection.  A good way to
analyze the route to expensive medicine is to track it through
the expenses of a developme