China's Vaccine Tourists Drain Hong Kong's Supply of Cancer Drug

  • Merck says city’s supply of Gardasil 9 will be tight all year
  • Prices have spiked and clinics are turning away patients
Gardasil 9 HPV vaccines.Source: Imaginechina via AP Photo
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Medical tourism has been a great business for Manna Wang, an insurance agent in Shenzhen who’s been helping Chinese women travel to Hong Kong for a vaccine against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer.

Business has been so good, in fact, that the medicine is running is out.