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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (523492)10/26/2009 11:48:16 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 1582879
 
Are you not aware that there are multiple strains of influenza out there every year?

en.wikipedia.org

As to how long the current swine flu has been around:

In March and April 2009, an outbreak of a new strain of influenza commonly referred to as "swine flu" infected many people in Mexico and other parts of the world, causing illness ranging from mild to severe.
en.wikipedia.org

I note you didn't take issue with the important point - that past federal actions have limited the number of companies that make vaccines:

The Vaccines for Children Program, for example, was a do-gooder innovation of the Clinton administration (Hillary’s toe in the water for national health care, apparently) that disrupted market forces and dealt a blow to vaccine producers. Established in 1994, it created a single-buyer system for children’s vaccines, making the government by far the largest purchaser of childhood vaccines — at a mandated discount of 50 percent. Try extorting that kind of discount from manufacturers of trucks for the U.S. Postal Service or of Meals-Ready-to-Eat (MREs) for the Department of Defense, and see how long the companies bid on government contracts.

To repeat: You admitted the problem is its not lucrative to make vaccines, then you leave out the part where the government set the price 50% lower than it had been before federal intervention.
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