Interesting new information - Tamiflu - the drug that all the news stations keep showing as the "miracle drug" for fighting this new Bird Flu - seems that theres lots of fighting about breaking the patent by Roche
The company that holds the patent - Gilead Sciences, Inc will fight it tooth and nail - especially since they have a friend in Washington - their former Chairman and still a board member that owns a huge amount of stock in the company - the Secretary of Defense - D Rumsfield - he was made chairman in 1997 and left to become the head of the defense dept - amazingly the US placed an order for 20 million doses at $100 per. (hmm thats 2 bill)
The funny part is that the drug doesnt even work in preventing the flu - just shortens the time you have it.
The company that holds the patent - Gilead Sciences, Inc will fight it tooth and nail - especially since they have a friend in Washington - their former Chairman and still a board member that owns a huge amount of stock in the company - the Secretary of Defense - D Rumsfield - he was made chairman in 1997 and left to become the head of the defense dept - amazingly the US placed an order for 20 million doses at $100 per. (hmm thats 2 bill)
The funny part is that the drug doesnt even work in preventing the flu - just shortens the time you have it.
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