What happened to Pig Flu?
Martin
would be piled ten feet high in the streets. Well, that was the hype.
The reality is that Pig Flu turned out to be slightly less serious
than Man Flu.
But HIV Boffins never fail to smell a cash cow when it's in the
vicinity. Put HIV and Pig Flu together and what do you get? Financing
for another useless research project to keep those clever Boffins off
the streets and out of the soup kitchens.
<http://www.fox2now.com/news/sns-ap-mo--vaccinetrial-hiv,0,1825904.story>:
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Researchers at Saint Louis University are recruiting HIV-infected
adults for a clinical trial of how the swine flu virus may affect
them.
The researchers will also study the subjects' immune response to the
H1N1 vaccine.
Saint Louis University is one of a half-dozen sites conducting the
study. The entire project will enroll about 240 HIV-positive men and
women ages of 18 to 64.
The university is among the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation units
funded by the National Institutes of Health. Its researchers have also
studied the effects of the swine flu vaccine on healthy adults,
children and pregnant women.
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14 years, 11 months and 25 days.
Martin
wrote:
>Do you remember Pig Flu? Millions were going to die and their bodies
>would be piled ten feet high in the streets. Well, that was the hype.
>The reality is that Pig Flu turned out to be slightly less serious
>than Man Flu.
>
>But HIV Boffins never fail to smell a cash cow when it's in the
>vicinity. Put HIV and Pig Flu together and what do you get? Financing
>for another useless research project to keep those clever Boffins off
>the streets and out of the soup kitchens.
>
><http://www.fox2now.com/news/sns-ap-mo--vaccinetrial-hiv,0,1825904.story>
Oink! Oink! The UK has ended up with more than 30 million unwanted
Pig Flu vaccines on its hands, and may off-load them on to the third
world.
Well, they were pretty pleased when we gave them HIVAIDS.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8448080.stm>:
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The government is making plans to offload millions of doses of swine
flu vaccine amid predictions a "third wave" of the pandemic is
unlikely to happen.
Officials are in discussion with manufacturer GSK over contracts for
remaining doses purchased by the UK.
Options include selling surplus vaccine and donating it to poorer
countries but a stockpile will remain in place.
Cases of swine flu have now dropped dramatically to well below what is
usually seen in winter flu outbreaks.
Last week France announced it was selling millions of doses of swine
flu vaccine after finding they had more than enough to cope with the
outbreak.
[...]
An official figure for the cost of the vaccine to the UK has never
been given but it is likely to run into hundreds of millions.
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14 years, 11 months and 27 days.