Reports of Humanity's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
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Demand creates its own supply:
British pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reported a "breakthrough" in trials of a vaccine to combat a lethal strain of bird flu in humans.Remind me again how the pharmaceutical companies are nothing but "greedy capitalist bastards" who sell us drugs we don't need, and at inflated prices?
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GSK said that governments could order the vaccine for the H5N1 virus for delivery and stockpiling in early 2007 if it was approved by US, European and other regulators, even though more development work had to be done.
[P]robably it's going to be equivalent to a flu vaccine in terms of cost — maybe four pounds a dose or so," [GSK's CEO] said.Bravo to Glaxo's scientists, executives and investors — all of whom contributed in their way to this globally significant breakthrough. Hopefully the FDA and the rest of the world's pharmacrats won't impede the development and deployment of this vaccine.
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Posted by Kip on
27 July 2006
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