Picture this, cranking out the generic antiviral, India staves off bird flu pandemic while the West manages to save the few millions they have drugs for, but lose a sizable proportion of the rest.
I notice that the media IS reporting this little Capitalist blip: no generics...even if it means mass death...but not commenting much on it.
Joanna
Ira Glazer wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/health/14virus.html
>
> By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
> Published: October 14, 2005
>
>
> A major Indian drug company announced yesterday that it would start
> making a generic version of Tamiflu, the anti-influenza drug that is
> in critically short supply in the face of a possible epidemic of
> avian flu.
>
> "