WHO sends Tamiflu to Iraq after bird flu confirmed (Rumsfeld has stock)

[Lori Price CLG]

WHO sends Tamiflu to Iraq after bird flu confirmed 03 Feb 2006 The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that it was sending several thousand courses of influenza drug Tamiflu to Iraq to help treat (sic) any further cases of deadly bird flu in humans.

The United Nations' health agency has already announced that a team, including veterinary experts, is on the way to investigate the situation in the north after a teenager died last month from the virus.

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Tamiflu found ineffective in bird flu treatment 21 Dec 2005 The drug most of the world is counting on to prevent an avian flu pandemic may not be a failsafe defence, according to a New England Journal of Medicine report.

The authors say they have found evidence the H5N1 virus can mutate into a form unaffected by Tamiflu -- rendering the world's ever-growing stockpiles of the drug ineffective if the mutated strain were to spread.

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Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu --Defense Secretary, ex-chairman of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing. 31 Oct 2005 The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world.

Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)'s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.

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Lori Price
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

[Mojorabbit]

1. It's about time

Iraq has said they only had five courses of it and they have over twelve people in the hospital.

[havocmom]

2. Weren't there news reports that Tamiflu is useless against this flu?

Oh, but why should we let facts get in the way of Rumsfeld's profits?

That man is a spawn of evil.

[Lori Price CLG]

3. Right, I am looking for that link right now, and will add it. Thanks! n/t

[uppityperson]

5. I read that a bit back too.

some drugs work, some don't

[Lori Price CLG]

6. I just added a link to that item to my original post, LOL!! n/t

[gkhouston]

7. not useless, but not as effective as it is against other varieties of flu

and you need higher doses and a longer course of treatment.

[havocmom]

9. Well THAT must make Rummy happy! Set the stage for a pandemic

like the one that hit after WWI and watch your stocks rocket from sales to a desperate world.

Get a rope.

[Lori Price CLG]

11. Right, and Bush has already signed off on quarantines and KBR...

got the $385m contract to build detention centers to be used in the event of a 'national emergency.'
Bush is getting ready to play the bioterror card.

Lori Price

[Lori Price CLG]

10. Right, and the end result: Rumsfeld makes a *killing.* n/t

[Virginia Dare]

4. Things that make you go "Hmmmmm" EOM

[lovuian]

8. Now our soldiers are in danger for other stuff!!!

I'm so worried!!!

[rodeodance]

12. that is a lot of stock Rummy.

[Lori Price CLG]

13. Yes, but I think Giuliani made an even bigger *killing* on 9/11 --

and his subsequent Homeland Suckyourity contracts.

Lori Price