Obama declares swine flu a national emergency

[goadam1]

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Companies reap the swine flu windfall
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-S...59M3TZ20091023

so what. If we invested in new infrastructure, then ibm, ge, alcoa, haliburton and others would benefit. Someone makes the stuff.

Meanwhile, I'll be looking for vaccine without mercury for my kids.

[D-Mack]

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Army first in line to get cutting-edge swine flu shot

Published: 12 Oct 09 15:00 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091012-22523.html
The German army has ordered a stock of special swine flu vaccine that does not contain controversial additives that will be given to the general public, the Defence Ministry confirmed on Monday.

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091012-22523.html

Here in Germany the army and politicians will be getting the stuff without additives, while the peasants are left with the other stuff.


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[Sapiens]

Re: Obama declares swine flu a national emergency

Companies reap the swine flu windfall
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-S...59M3TZ20091023

Companies reap the swine flu windfall
Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:43pm EDT

By Julie Steenhuysen - Analysis

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Healthcare companies are reaping the benefits of a global swine flu pandemic, brightening what might otherwise have been a dismal third quarter and bringing new focus on the market for vaccines.

Large European pharmaceutical companies are reporting windfall sales from flu drugs and H1N1 vaccines.

Small biotechs are winning fresh attention from investors and governments looking for quick, less expensive ways of making flu vaccines to protect their populations. And diagnostic companies have been growing revenues as doctors order more flu tests.

"Pretty much everyone who does something in influenza in has gained from it," said Hedwig Kresse, an infectious diseases analyst at Datamonitor in London.

"From a sales perspective, the big players certainly will see a very significant windfall of this pandemic this year," Kresse said in a telephone interview.

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[Sapiens]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...-0nkQD9BHLEA00

Obama declares swine flu a national emergency

By PHILIP ELLIOTT (AP) – 14 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.

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On April 26, the administration declared swine flu a public health emergency, allowing the shipment of roughly 12 million doses of flu-fighting medications from a federal stockpile to states in case they eventually needed them. At the time, there were 20 confirmed cases in the U.S. of people recovering easily. There was no vaccine against swine flu, but the CDC had taken the initial step necessary for producing one.

"As a nation, we have prepared at all levels of government, and as individuals and communities, taking unprecedented steps to counter the emerging pandemic," Obama wrote in Saturday's declaration.

He said the pandemic keeps evolving, the rates of illness are rising rapidly in many areas and there's a potential "to overburden health care resources."

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God help you all.