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[RevolutionRadio.org] Martial Law and the Militarization of Public Health: The Worldwide ...: According to the Wall Street Journal (Oct 1, 2005), the Bush administration had asked Congress for an estimated $6-10 billion “to stockpile vaccines and antiviral medications as part of its plans to prepare the U.S. for a possible flu pandemic.” A large part of this budget, namely 3.1 billion was used under the Bush administration to stockpile the antiviral drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu), of which the intellectual property rights belong to Gilead Science Inc, a company headed by Don Rumsfeld prior to becoming Secretary of Defense under the Bush administration.

[The Bovine] Trick or Treat? ”” Swine Flu H1N1 v2.0 along with compulsory ...: Even more bizarre for a supposed pandemic ”˜threat to all mankind’ the official monitoring agency in the nation with so far the largest number of reported case counts, which notably include ”˜probable’ ad well as ”˜confirmed’ H1N1 cases, namely the United States, the CDC announced en passant, on that May 28 press briefing that, ”˜beginning next week, we’re going to shift to a different schedule.  We’ll be updating our case count information less frequently.’ That statement came from Dr. Anne Schuchat, Deputy Director for Science and Public Health Program of the US Centers for Disease Control.

[deadmousegirl.com] 2008 article foretelling the coming Swine Flue "pandemic"...: On April 28 of this year in an official Press Release from Sanofi Pasteur US headquarters in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania and Lyon, France, the company stated, "Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis Group, announced today that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has accepted H5N1 bulk vaccine antigen to produce approximately 38.5 million doses of vaccine to protect against a new strain of avian influenza. Sanofi Pasteur has a multi-year contract with HHS as part of its pandemic program, and will receive a payment of $192.5 million booked in the second quarter of 2008 for acceptance of the bulk vaccine lot."19

[BBC NEWS | Fergus On Flu] BBC - Fergus On Flu: National pandemic service: A leap of faith: The NHS website has been saying for weeks that Tamiflu can reduce the length of time a patient suffers syptoms by a day. Yet the way they are handing it out, along with Ralenza, pretty well like sweets, when in reality most people won't suffer really serious symptoms that might require any more drugs than pain killers, sends out a contrary message.

[Scoop44] Confusion Surrounds Swine Flu Decision-Making :: Scoop44: The Bush administration indicated that it would not micromanage preparation for an influenza pandemic through top-down mandates. Instead, the Department of Homeland Security tried to build coherency across all levels of government, businesses, and community groups.

[RevolutionRadio.org] A Flash Back”¦Martial Law and the Avian Flu Pandemic: In this regard, a number of major pharmaceutical companies including GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, California based Chiron Corp, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc, Novavax and Wave Biotech, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche Holding, have positioned themselves in the procurement of vaccines in case of an avian ‘flu outbreak. Maryland-based biotechnology company MedImmune which produces “an inhaled flu vaccine”

[Local News from Sarasota Herald-Tribune] 2 flu cases in state; drug stockpiles lag | HeraldTribune.com ...: The potential shortage raises questions about how the state would get more drugs in a pandemic and whether Florida should have purchased them already. In the state's own flu preparedness plan, health officials outline Florida's particular risk in the nation for pandemic flu, including its dense population, agricultural economy and high level of tourism.

[Keith Connects The Dots] Glaxo, Rumsfeld, the FDA, and Dan Brown: So in addition to vaccines, which are the foundation of our pandemic response, I'm asking Congress for $1 billion to stockpile additional antiviral medications so that we have enough on hand to help treat first responders and those on the front lines as well as populations most at risk in the first stages of a pandemic."

[Socio-Economics History Blog] Swine Flu, Tamiflu and A Pandemic of Fear? Cui Bono? « Socio ...: , the U.S. government at the time was creating a $1.4 billion stockpile of Tamiflu, while admitting that “it is useful only when taken within the first 48 hours, and Tamiflu-resistant strains of the flu have already been found in Vietnam and in Egypt.” That’s $1.4 billion tax dollars being spent on a drug of questionable effectiveness.

[Centurean2's Weblog] Swine Flu Vaccine Tainted With Live Avian Flu-Baxter ...: The Geneva-based agency has been stockpiling doses of Roche AG’s Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir, a pill that can both treat flu and prevent infection.

[Influenza-SwineFlu.com] Influenza-SwineFlu.com » Trick or Treat? ”” Swine Flu H1N1 v2.0 ...: Even more bizarre for a supposed pandemic ”˜threat to all mankind’ the official monitoring agency in the nation with so far the largest number of reported case counts, which notably include ”˜probable’ ad well as ”˜confirmed’ H1N1 cases, namely the United States, the CDC announced en passant, on that May 28 press briefing that, ”˜beginning next week, we’re going to shift to a different schedule.  We’ll be updating our case count information less frequently.’ That statement came from Dr. Anne Schuchat, Deputy Director for Science and Public Health Program of the US Centers for Disease Control.

[PERUBATAN Online Iskandariah] PERUBATAN Online Iskandariah » Blog Archive » Swine Flu : 5 Things ...: Some of the difference may be due to the fact that Mexico has apparently been grappling with swine flu for weeks longer than the U.S. As doctors across the U.S. begin checking patients with respiratory symptoms for swine flu, CDC officials expect to see more severe cases in the U.S. as well - and as better epidemiological work is done in Mexico, we’ll probably hear about more mild cases there too. Right now, however, the true severity of the H1N1 swine flu virus is still an open question, whose answer could change over time.

[articles blog] American Daily Review - articles blog - The Politics of Tamiflu: As I wrote earlier, the Bush administration had called for increasing the stockpile of Tamiflu, in preparation for a possible avian flu outbreak, to be increased from 50 million doses to 195 million doses in June 2008 when the flu pandemic response plan was created. The same plan that President .

[The Lede] Updates on the Swine Flu Outbreak - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com: We’ve since seen our fair share of surreal sights indicating that Mexico City’s government and citizens are taking seriously the threat of a flu pandemic: masked soldiers folding the flag in front of the empty Museo Anthropologico, police traveling from door to door to shut down every restaurant in the fashionable Polanco district on a suspiciously quiet Saturday night, hundreds of soldiers guarding the perimeter of the university, which has been closed since Friday.

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