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[WaPo] Maybe you shouldn’t trust North Korea’s version of Viagra
[THE WASHINGTON POST] – North Korea is a land of medical marvels – according to North Korea. Just last week, a pharmaceutical company announced that it had come up with a vaccine for MERS, a deadly virus for which there is currently no known cure or treatment despite considerable international effort.
In fact, as The Post’s Anna Fifield pointed out, the MERS vaccine was just one of a number of intertwined pharmaceutical advances made by the Hermit Kingdom. For obvious reasons, however, one triumph of North Korean pharmaceutical engineering has received more attention than most others: its Viagra substitutes.
For example, one imaginatively named product named NeoViagra-Y.R. has been around for at least 10 years now, sold within North Korea but also exported to China and available online. Its producers, the state-owned Korea Oriental Instant Medicinal Center, say that it is not only a substitute for Viagra, but is in fact better than its Western rival. [READ MORE]