Medical insider spills the beans on bird flu Profits.

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Healthy profits have healing powersBy Benjamin Zycher, BENJAMIN ZYCHER is a

senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, which receives research grant

support from the pharmaceutical industry. E-mail: benzycher.

 

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AH, BARN DOORS being closed after the horses are roaming the countryside.

Consider the recent White House meeting among President Bush, top administration

officials and the major vaccine producers. The purpose was to speed preparations

for a possible — but unlikely — flu pandemic caused by a potential breakout of

avian flu among human populations.

 

A similar 1918 outbreak killed 30 million to 50 million people worldwide. So why

are those greedy pharmaceutical producers not moving mountains in anticipation

of this huge potential need, with all of the dollars that would follow?

 

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