Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline predicts swine flu gold rush

[Derek]

Britain's biggest pharmaceutical company is preparing to sell £3bn worth of swine flu drugs this year, it emerged today.

GlaxoSmithKline revealed its vaccine, one of the world's first, could be available by September after the UK government placed advance orders for 60m doses.

The chief executive, Andrew Witty, said <span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">the company had been preparing for a pandemic for the last three-and-a-half years</span></span> and had spent more than £1bn to ensure its factories could crank up production at short notice.



<span style="font-style: italic">Eh? 'Preparing'? 'Three-and-a-half years'?</span>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/22/glaxosmithkline-swine-flu-vaccine

[f0rTyLeGz]

Re: Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline predicts swine flu gold rush

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Britain's biggest pharmaceutical company is preparing to sell £3bn worth of swine flu drugs this year, it emerged today.

GlaxoSmithKline revealed its vaccine, one of the world's first, could be available by September after the UK government placed advance orders for 60m doses.

The chief executive, Andrew Witty, said <span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">the company had been preparing for a pandemic for the last three-and-a-half years</span></span> and had spent more than £1bn to ensure its factories could crank up production at short notice.

<span style="font-style: italic">Eh? 'Preparing'? 'Three-and-a-half years'?</span>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...ne-flu-vaccine </div></div>
&quot;There have been about three influenza pandemics in each century for the last 300 years. The most recent ones were the Asian Flu in 1957 and the Hong Kong Flu in 1968.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that there is a substantial risk of an influenza pandemic within the next few years. One of the strongest candidates is a highly pathogenic variation of the H5N1 subtype of Influenza A virus. As of 2006, prepandemic influenza vaccines are being developed against the most likely suspects which include H5N1, H7N1, and H9N2.&quot;

Talk of vicious flu strains have been going on for a decade, since the last world wide pandemic was forty years ago.

Did you think that GlaxoSmithKline let it slip accidentally and actually knew that the pandemic was coming? Maybe &quot;they&quot; created it? Truth is they have invested their earnings wisely, and are ready to battle this wicked swine flu.

[Derek]

Re: Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline predicts swine flu gold rush

OK...

[britisha]

Re: Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline predicts swine flu gold rush

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body">OK... </div></div>

I doubt they'll even sell a million pounds worth..

Whey dem gwine get di vaccine fram?

[evanovitch]

ENGLAND ANNOUNCES 100,000 NEW CASES OF SWINE FLU

ENGLAND ANNOUNCES 100,000 NEW CASES OF SWINE FLU
AFP
Posted: 7/23/2009 3:59:30 PM
LONDON, England — Around 100,000 new cases of swine flu were diagnosed in England in the last week, officials said yesterday, as millions rushed to consult a new website to identify symptoms and order drugs.

At least 30 deaths have so far been linked to swine flu here, 26 in England and four in Scotland, according to the latest update from the Department of Health.

The figure is unchanged on the previous week. A further 840 people are in hospital in England, including 63 in intensive care, chief medical officer Liam Donaldson told reporters.

The concern felt by many over swine flu was reflected in what the government admitted was “unprecedented demand” for the new site, which launched today was soon receiving 2,600 hits per second, or 9.3 million an hour.

Donaldson accepted that the rise in new cases — almost double last week’s figure of 55,000 — was a “substantial increase” but stressed the majority of patients suffer only mild symptoms.

He told the BBC many people were probably logging on to the site out of “curiosity”, adding: “It will calm down and then people with genuine flu symptoms will be able to use the system and they will get their drugs quickly and efficiently.”

[f0rTyLeGz]

Re: ENGLAND ANNOUNCES 100,000 NEW CASES OF SWINE FLU

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">britisha:I doubt they'll even sell a million pounds worth..</div></div>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
LONDON, England — Around 100,000 new cases of swine flu were diagnosed in England in the last week...</div></div>

I wouldn't pay! Would you?!

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