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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (523456)10/25/2009 11:31:00 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1582982
 
Yes, there have been technical issues. But we’ve driven most of the American companies out of the vaccine business.

You are as much of an idiot as inode. Do you understand we have two flus going.....not just the one we normally have each year? Has that fact entered your pea sized brain at all??? The first flu is the normal slightly mutated seasonal flu. The second flu is a very new and significant mutation of an old flu virus for which we had no prototype. The vaccine had to be done from scratch. In fact, the gov't and vaccine companies came up with the swine flu vaccine in record time. Its amazing how well they have done even as the swine flu had a mind of its own and came on strong in September instead of December/January like the seasonal flu.

Hoover’s Dr. Henry I. Miller from 2005:

Why can’t a country that developed the atomic bomb (60 years ago) and the polio vaccine (50 years ago) and put a man on the moon (almost 40 years ago) now produce an appropriate vaccine?

Because there are no margins in making the flu vaccine. It is not a particularly lucrative enbterprise and its never clear how many vaccines to make so the companies that make it end up eating some of it. So many companies have stopped making the vaccine. This whole issue came up under Bush.....where were you?
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