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There is an extremely damn good reason for the press hype and the Administration pushing all of the fear out to the public - its the medicine that would be used to fight it
Right now Tamiflu (you always see little bottles of it on the TV shows about bird flu) is the only patented drug that will have any effect on bird flu (and even that is very minor)
Its produced by a company called Roche under marketing rights from the discovering/patent holder company Gilead Sciences Inc located in California.
Guess who the Chairman of the board of Gilead was until he became the Secretary of Defense - thats right Donald H. Rumsfeld - who is still its major stockholder with millions worth (around $18mill or so) of their stock.
Interesting that Bush recently suggested that the US buy $2 Billion worth of the drug - although most medical journals say it wont do much for a real outbreak (if there ever really is one in humans - so far one mammal has been affected by the bad strain)
Kinda reminiscent of Rumsfelds best friend Cheney who is making billions in residuals from his company that he left to become Vice President (Halliburton - the rebuilders of Iraq)
If you need links just google tamiflu rumsfeld - or if you are a hater - go for it - just the facts - no opinions here
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