Britain is about halfway through receiving an order of 14.6 million courses of the drug, which the government hopes will avert some of the 700,000 deaths that might be expected. Tamiflu does not cure the disease, but if taken soon after symptoms appear it can reduce its severity.
The drug was developed by a Californian biotech company, Gilead Sciences. It is now made and sold by the giant chemical company Roche, which pays it a royalty on every tablet sold, currently about a fifth of its price.
Mr Rumsfeld was on the board of Gilead from 1988 to 2001, and was its chairman from 1997. He then left to join the Bush administration, but retained a huge shareholding.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article350787.ece
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If we believe what we see on tv and read in the papers, Al Qaida wants to get us, we're overdue for an asteroid strike, the earth is overheating, we're running out of energy, and now mother nature wants to hit us with a "pandemic"?
What'll they think of next?
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
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I'm working on my droid army, but it won't be completed till late 2008.<br />
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<a href="http://www.robotstore.com/store/product.asp?id=724&catid=1527">http://www.robotstore.com/store/product.asp?id=724&catid=1527</a><br />
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(For some reason, I can't reply directly to your comment. I think it's due to the & translation of '$')<p>---<br>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden<br />
I can respect that LoL
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
I don't see where the battery pack goes... I guess you need to control them with a wire... how many of them you want to use in your little army?
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<p>---<br>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden<br />
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"The more you read and learn, the less your adversary will know." --Sun Tzu
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
And that's only if he likes you.
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
every instance for human death linked to this bug comes from countries with bad health systems,bad infrastucture and poor hygene in their citizens,so where is the link ?
dirty pots,dirty hands,dirty water ?
All the people you mentioned play for the other team, regardless of what they profess before the cameras.
Moore is a decoy. He scratches the surface, and makes it look like he's exposed the whole corrupt mess.
Streisand is a hypocrite. If she could sing out of both sides of her mouth as well as she talks she'd be a truie phenom. As it stands, she shrieks like scalded cat.
Chomsky is smart enough to know there's a market in "resistance" just waiting to be exploited.
Kennedy is the son of one of the most diabolical insiders the US has ever known.
None of this should be a surprise.
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
<a href="http://www.boston-legal.org/19-stickit/ep19-stickit.shtml#dialogue">http://www.boston-legal.org/19-stickit/ep19-stickit.shtml#dialogue</a><p>---<br>RickW
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush