The fact remains that we have to rely on foreign manufacturers for flu drugs. Not one US manufacturer will make these drugs because of FEAR of LITIGATION!!
Roche, as I posted up thread has a monopoly on TamiFLu.
If this thing spreads, millions will die because we are too litigious of a society and the drug manufacturers are only in business to make BIG bucks.
SNIP:Only the U.S. and New Zealand allow advertising of drugs directed at patients. U.S. pharmaceutical companies spent $2.5 billion US in advertising prescription drug products to the public in 2000, says Mintzes. Although this amount is less than 20 per cent of the total advertising budget, it is the fastest-growing budget item, she adds. Retail drug sales in 2000 totalled $145 billion US.
Islamic Thrust for Global Supremacy - Just Say No!
Why then, do we not see stories as such on CNN, ABC, CBS, Nightline, Good Morning America, and the rest? Is it due to lawsuits from people like CAIR who seemingly sue at the drop of a hat? Or is it due to people not wanting to disturb potentially a billion angry Mohammedans who have no problem with wholesale slaughter of anyone outside their religion?
Shell will make billions-dollar investment in Iran's oil industry
He reiterated, ?The Shell will inject billions of dollars into Iran?s industry if the country pays more heed to investment.
US prepares plan to ration flu drug
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told NPR that the Bush administration is working on a plan to ration Tamiflu, a scarce drug that's currently the only medical weapon against a pandemic flu virus. If a global outbreak occurred anytime soon, the nation's limited supplies of the drug would go first to medical personnel, said Leavitt.
Health minister says Canada prepared for bird flu
Canada has stockpiled enough vaccine to contain an outbreak if the deadly bird flu becomes transmittable from human to human, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said.
Social cleansing of gang members in Guatamala?
...groups of unidentified gunmen arriving in poor neighborhoods and pulling gang members or suspected criminals out of their homes or off the street. Some were never seen again, while the bodies of others turned up wrapped in blankets or sheets of plastic. Most victims have been criminals or members of gangs whose ranks have swollen as the United States increasingly deports Central American immigrants suspected of gang activity.
Old article re biological weapons
A series of field tests took place under the auspices of the Biological Laboratories from 1943 to the mid-1960s:
In one such test, travelers at Washington National Airport were subjected to a harmless bacterium. Traps were placed throughout the facility to capture the bacterium as it flowed in the air. Laboratory personnel, dressed as travelers carrying brief cases, walked the corridors and without detection sprayed the bacterium into the atmosphere.
In the New York Subway, a light bulb filled with the same harmless bacterium was dropped on the tracks. The organism spread throughout the system within 20 minutes. Traps and monitoring devices showed the amount of organism—if it were one of the predictable, dangerous organisms, could have killed thousands of persons. No one was injured or became ill as a result of the test.
In San Francisco, a U.S. Navy ship, equipped with spray devices operated by Fort Detrick personnel, sprayed serratia marcescens, a non-pathogenic microorganism that is easily detected, while the ship plied the San Francisco Bay. It spread more than 30 miles to monitoring stations.
A jet aircraft equipped with spray devices, flew a course near Victoria, Texas, and the harmless particles were monitored in the Florida Keys.