this is screwed up

http://www.theworld.org/content/10265.wma
http://www.theworld.org/content/10266.wma

there's this one chinese company that developed a highly effective anti-malaria drug, it's the most effective drug treatment against the strongest form of malaria. The drug is based on the ingredients of a chinese tree, which as been used since ancient times to reduce feaver. however, it's under threat right now because counterfit companies are producing fake anti-malaria drugs. I have seen counterfit cd's and dvd's but this is really a dirty business because people take these drugs to save their lives. The counterfitters are producing exact replicas so well that doctors have no way of distinguishing the drugs. However, they are able to test the drugs for the active ingredient, which can work but lately the counterfitters have started adding small amounts of the active ingredient in order to get past these chemical tests. This is even worse because it gives small doses of the drug to the malaria parasite, enabling it to become resistant to the drug much faster than it normally would. when i recently went to a dvd shop here in kabul, i was extremely impressed by the ridiculous quality of the dvd labels and what not, they sell season series of popular shows such as "24", "Seinfeld" and tons of other cool stuff in what looks like normal packaging. however, this is also scary when you think about how that same advanced copy-technology is being used to produce fake drugs, which is a pretty sinister business.