It's not the threat to humans that's the big deal, but to the affected countries' poultry and poultry derivative markets. The disease is prolifically lethal to birds.
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> years ago? Do you know that barely 100 people have died in the whole world
> in all that time? Do you know that it was the Americans who alerted us
> to
> the efficacy of the human antiviral TAMIFLU as a preventative. Do you
> know that TAMIFLU barely alleviates some symptoms of the common flu?
> Do
> you know that its efficacy against the common flu is questioned by a
> great
> part of the scientific community? Do you know that against a SUPPOSED
> mutant virus such as H5N1, TAMIFLU barely alleviates the illness? Do
> you
> know that to date Avian Flu affects birds only? Do you know who markets
> TAMIFLU? ROCHE LABORATORIES. Do you know who bought the patent for
> TAMIFLU from ROCHE LABORATORIES in 1996? GILEAD SCIENCES INC. Do
> you know who was the then president of GILEAD SCIENCES INC. and remains
> a
> major shareholder? DONALD RUMSFELD, the present Secretary of Defence of
> the USA. Do you know that the base of TAMIFLU is crushed aniseed? Do
> you know who controls 90% of the world's production of this tree?
> ROCHE.
> Do you know that sales of TAMIFLU were over $ 254 million in 2004 and
> more
> than $ 1000 million in 2005? Do you know how many more millions ROCHE can
> earn in the coming months if the business of fear continues? So the
> summary of the story is as follows: Bush's friends decide that the
> medicine TAMIFLU is the solution for a pandemic that has not yet
> occurred
> and that has caused a hundred deaths worldwide in 9 years. This
> medicine
> doesn't so much as cure the common flu. In normal conditions the virus
> does not affect humans. Rumsfeld sells the patent for TAMIFLU to ROCHE
> for which they pay him a fortune. Roche acquires 90% of the global
> production of crushed aniseed, the base for the antivirus. The
> governments of the entire world threaten a pandemic and then buy
> industrial quantities of the product from Roche. So we end up paying for
> medicine while Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush do the business. ARE WE
> CRAZY!!? OR ARE WE IDIOTS!!?