[Flaco76]

Earlier today I was listening to the BBC talking about AIDS and the development of the drug cocktail using AZT in the treatment. For a while it was only used in the North or more developed world due to cost of the drugs and that it required a stringent schedule of treatment to prevent disease mutation. However, that was the 80's before the Internet, social media, more globalization and so on. So let us say you create this vaccine that creates healthier children, how much does it cost?

The West may have patent laws and governments/corporations with the resources willing to defend the patents. We also have places in the less developed world like China/India/Russia who are willing to reverse engineer products and technologies or simply obtain the technology. Good luck trying to enforce those patents since many people would be spending lots of money to obtain those vaccines. So now you would have the birth of the Biopunk age. You have people or classes that can purchase the latest genetic and medical upgrades and the ones who use the state approved versions and then the underground versions.