Bird Flu Not Forgotten By GlaxoSmithKline

Bird Flu Not Forgotten By GlaxoSmithKline
(I am sure it's not.)
"Time to whip up hysteria about bird flu again."

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/05/19/glaxo-bird-flu-markets-equity-cx_ll_...


http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/05/19/glaxo-vaccine.html

Governments in Switzerland and Finland have both signed contracts for vaccine to stockpile, while the Untied States has said it plans to hoard enough of the drug to protect 20 million people. Canada has chosen not to stockpile immunizations, although its current contract with GSK gives it first access to any vaccine manufactured at the company's facility in Ste-Foy, Que., if a pandemic strikes.

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[DemocracyJilted]

The question I am raising is... Is Avian Flu, based on the number of deaths within the affected areas, the threat it is hyped to be? OR... is this just one more neocon scare tactic to further enrich Rumsfeld and his cronies???

[DemocracyJilted]

CREATING a potential mass pandemic is a BAD thing. Donald Rumsfeld, has made a killing out of bird flu. The former US Defense Secretary has made more than $5 million in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu, the drug being bought in massive amounts by Governments to treat a possible human pandemic (created by US Government) of the disease. Rumsfeld used to be on the Board of Gilead Sciences, the company that makes the drug.

[keedaman]

so preventing a potential mass pandemic is a bad thing?