Obama Swine Flu scam over - France cancels 50 million flu shot orders
Leroy N. Soetoro
PARIS (Reuters) - France has canceled over half the flu vaccines it
ordered to combat the H1N1 flu virus, Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot
said on Monday, in an effort to head off criticism after reserving too
many shots.
France ordered the vaccinations from Sanofi-Pasteur, a unit of
Sanofi-Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Baxter International.
The government estimated 94 million individual shots were needed,
thinking that everyone would need two jabs for immunity against the
illness.
Doctors now say a single vaccination is sufficient, meaning that France,
with a population of some 65 million has a massive oversupply and is
already trying to sell on some of the surplus shots it has received.
"I have canceled 50 million doses," Bachelot said on TF1 television.
"These orders had not been paid for or delivered so they are canceled,"
she added.
The Health Ministry said it had originally bought the 94 vaccines at a
cost of 869 million euros. Bachelot said the canceled order would save
more than 350 million euros.
Opposition politicians have criticized the government, saying it has
wasted money and helped drugs companies. Socialist Party spokesman
Benoit Hamon said large pharmaceutical firms were "the big winners in
this affair."
A Sanofi-Aventis spokesman said on Monday that the company and the
government had started a review of a contract for 28 million vaccine
doses before the Christmas holidays.
About half of the doses had been delivered he said but it was premature
to comment on the implication of the canceled order for the company.
Some five million people in France have so far been vaccinated against
H1N1, health officials say.
The flu virus has killed an estimated 198 people on mainland France,
according to data released on December 29, but doctors have said new
infections have fallen sharply in recent weeks.
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<leroys...@usurper.org> wrote:
>http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6034HX20100104
>
>PARIS (Reuters) - France has canceled over half the flu vaccines it
>ordered to combat the H1N1 flu virus, Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot
>said on Monday, in an effort to head off criticism after reserving too
>many shots. ...
Please indicate where in the article there is Any reference to this
being an "Obama swine flu scam."
Be specific.
Econotron
news:Xns9CF761D34C...@202.177.16.121...
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6034HX20100104
>
> PARIS (Reuters) - France has canceled over half the flu vaccines it
> ordered to combat the H1N1 flu virus, Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot
> said on Monday, in an effort to head off criticism after reserving too
> many shots.
>
> France ordered the vaccinations from Sanofi-Pasteur, a unit of
> Sanofi-Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Baxter International.
>
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