> but apparently now it is so expensive
They saw Shkreli hike prices 100x and decided that was the business model for them. Same thing has happened with rabies.
They saw Shkreli hike prices 100x and decided that was the business model for them. Same thing has happened with rabies.
Pre-exposure (PrEP) for rabies (a vaccine) is more expensive than it should be due to lack of economics of scale and the typical American medical pricing inflation. That's not unique to rabies, it's just how vaccines are allowed to be priced in the US.
My understanding is poorer rabies prone countries do not even attempt PEP for rabies due to the cost, they really rely on broad PrEP immunity.
PEP is always going to be more expensive than PrEP, because transplanting a vaccinated animal's immune response proteins is a much harder thing to do than getting your body to make it's own.