Whos Virus?

The Department of Health and the WHO are at odds on account of bird flu. The interests of the pharmaceutical industry are at stake.

February 20, 2007

AUSTRALIAS largest pharmaceutical firm, CSL Limited, announced its latest finding: a vaccine which can make an adult resistant to bird flu. Speaking in Melbourne, Australia, on January 30, CSL head of research, Dr. Andrew Cuthbertson, smugly announced that Australia is ready to face the possibility of an outbreak of bird flu.

After successfully testing on adults, the company is now focusing its research on how to rapidly produce the bird flu vacc

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