Counterfeit.

Counterfeiting of Viagra etc. is one thing,but this could cause devastation!

clipped from er.bsysmail.com Jill McGivering investigates drug piracy and the counterfeit drugs which threaten to jeopardise the fight against malaria. Could drug pirates wreck the world's best hope of combating malaria? A new drug, Artesunate, developed from traditional Chinese medicine is being hailed as the best chance of tackling malaria - which kills millions of people every year in Africa and South East Asia. But it's being undermined by widespread counterfeiting, particularly by counterfeit drugs containing a small amount of Artesunate which then allow the disease to develop a resistance to the drug. And ironically it's Chinese drug pirates who are believed to be largely responsible. A WHO health official says there'll be a public Health catastrophe if resistance to Artesunate is allowed to develop. Interpol tell us ethnic Chinese criminal gangs, operating across borders, are largely to blame for the counterfeits.