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Biotech / Medical : PFE (Pfizer) How high will it go? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BigKNY3 who wrote (4386)	7/16/1998 9:11:00 AM
From: Ron Flanigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9523

In Budapest a black market for Italians: (COMTEX) B: Viagra swelling Italian tourism in Hungary B: Viagra swelling Italian tourism in Hungary BUDAPEST, July 16 (AFP) - Italians are swarming to Hungary to buy the anti-impotence drug Viagra on the black market, a newspaper reported Thursday, saying the country could become a centre for "Viagra-tourism." Neither Hungary nor Italy have officially approved the US-produced drug, but the Italian influx follows a recent illegal shipment of "several cartons" of the drug from the United States, the daily Mai Nap paper said. Tourists are willing to pay the equivalent of more than 460 dollars -- twice the average monthly salary in Hungary -- for a box containing 30 pills, it said. Customs spokesman Jeno Sipos said one package containing the drug mailed privately from the United States had been seized, but he could not confirm the shipment of several cartons of pills. Viagra's producer Pfizer has not yet asked Hungary to approve the drug. Hungarian medical authorities have pledged to clamp down on its illegal sales and advertising. est/mt/jly * end of story *