Object
Fluconazole
Fluconazole detonates in Josh's bullpen interrogation, its name spat like shrapnel: 'What are your annual sales of Fluconazole alone?' Donna leans in, Josh presses—numbers cascade, exposing profits that mock Kenyan cops' $43 monthly wages. No tablets gleam under fluorescent lights; the antifungal's invisible bulk fuels Roosevelt Room fury, spokesmen deflect as Nimbala's translators absorb the corporate calculus, tension spiking with each evaded dollar figure.
2 appearances
Purpose
Antifungal medication treating systemic fungal infections, spotlighted here through sales data to quantify pharmaceutical profitability.
Significance
Fluconazole crystallizes the ethical chasm—its blockbuster sales arm corporate defenses against AIDS pleas, igniting Toby's rage and Josh's arithmetic assault, deadlock forms as profits eclipse African lives, propelling the White House toward desperate policy pivots.
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