the US government stockpiled tamiflu and vaccines in preparation for a bird flu pandemic that never came.

I remember considerable speculation that all of the flu scares at the turn of the millennium were ginned up by Roche to encourage sales of their market leading drug (Tamiflu) before it went out of copyright.

It has gone quiet on the flu front for a few years really, compared to the endless hype back then, and now we're getting something that might be a genuine problem. Roche must be distraught they can't clean up cos it's out of copyright now.

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