Bird Flu

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"Bird Flu" Do you know that 'bird flu' was discovered in Vietnam 9

> 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!!?