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Mr. Adams is a journalist in Atlanta who has written about the pharmaceutical industry. ATLANTA Nine years ago, Dr. Dennis Liotta, a professor of organic chemistry at Emory University, set out to change the way drugs are developed for so-called neglected diseases those that primarily affect populations in poorer countries and for which there exist few, if any, safe and effective treatments. “The cold hard truth is that it can cost billions of dollars and take decades to develop a new drug,” he said during a TEDx talk in 2016, shortly after the World Health Organization had declared the Zika virus a neglected disease that had long been overlooked in the African countries where it is endemic an international public health emergency. “So pharmaceutical companies almost invariably only pursue drugs for diseases that will generate large profits.”

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