Re: [問卦] 外國人：台灣小吃有老鼠藥？？

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Warfarin: Not a Friend to Rodents

Warfarin may be a life-saving drug for you, but it's a killer for rats. In
fact, warfarin was the first anticoagulant "rodenticide".

Rodenticides are pesticides that kill rodents. Warfarin was used widely as a
rodenticide, but today it's use is declining as many rodents have grown
resistant to it.

Rodents include not only rats and mice, but also squirrels, woodchucks,
chipmunks, porcupines, nutria, and beavers. As in humans, warfarin use stops
normal blood clotting in rodents. Although rodents play important roles in
nature, they can carry disease and may sometimes require control.

https://www.drugs.com/slideshow/warfarin-facts-1203

In 1945, Link considered using a coumarin derivative as a rodenticide.
Dicoumarol acted too slowly to be a practical poison. Link and colleagues
worked through a list of 150 variations of coumarin, and number 42 was found
to be particularly potent. The compound was named 'warfarin' after the
funding agency, and was successfully marketed in 1948 as a rodenticide.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrcardio.2017.172

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從製藥界的觀點來看，愛滋問題已被解決，畢竟，
我們已經有一款年劑量能以8000美元天價售出的藥物，
這還附加不會因治癒任何人而縮減市佔率的好處。
《生命中最糟的時刻》1991

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