Tamiflu
This story, and others like it will soon be front page news as the virus travels along the flyways of wild birds.
Just a little known fact; Roche, the maker of Tamiflu, gets $60 for one treatment. Let's see...$60 times 200 million is $12000000000000, more or less. A footnote to that is the fact that an Indian pharmaceutical company has decoded the structure of Tamiflu and is on its way to making a generic equivalent.
But, as you can see from the article, the virus is mutating and becoming Tamiflu resistant. The last influenza pandemeic was in 1918 and it killed millions of people worldwide and that was before the era of air travel.
My prediction? Halliburton will get into the drug business...
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