Bird Flu Vaccine : Somebody beat the doctor to it.

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China arrests nine over fake bird flu vaccine

[ Wednesday, November 30, 2005 04:41:33 pmAFP ]

 

 

BEIJING: Nine people have been arrested for selling fake bird flu vaccines

that are suspected to have contributed to an outbreak of the disease in

northeastern China's Liaoning province, state press said Wednesday. Police have

arrested officials of the Jinyu Group, a company based in Inner Mongolia that

produces medicines, and of the Inner Mongolian Biological Medical Products

Factory, the Liaoxi Commercial Daily reported. After a 20-day investigation

covering four provinces and regions, police found the two companies had

manufactured and sold 200,000 vials of 12 different kinds of bird flu vaccine

nationwide, the report said. With 29 outbreaks of the disease discovered so far

this year, China is seeking to vaccinate its estimated 5.2 billion farm-raised

birds, but requires manufacturers to have a license to produce the vaccines.

Police said that the Jinyu Corporation failed to apply for a licence from the

state to manufacture bird flu vaccines for poultry, but labelled its

products with fake government licencing numbers, it said. Investigators found

the fake vaccines were used on farms in Liaoning's Jinzhou region, where an

outbreak of bird flu occurred in mid-October, the report said. Some 2.5 million

farm-raised birds were killed in the Jinzhou region following the outbreak,

devastating the livelihood of farmers in the region. The government warned this

month that the use of fake vaccines in Liaoning could have disastrous

consequences for China. " The use of fake and shoddy vaccines will result in a

disaster, " Agriculture Minister Du Qingling said. " If the vaccines are not up to

standard, then immunisation will not be uniform or effective. This could bring

huge losses. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war

than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

-- General Omar Bradley

 

 

 

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