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Larry P.
Brooten, MN     10/22/2009 3:11 PM

Three out of four manufacturers of H1N1 vaccine for HHS, and approved by FDA, are based in foreign countries. They are: Sanofi Pasteur (France), Novartis (Switzerland) and CSL Limited (Australia). MedImmune, though manufacturing in the U.S., is a subsidiary of AstraZeneca, based in London. Tamiflu, the antiviral used to treat H1N1, is also in short supply for children. It's made by Roche, another global drug giant, also based in Switzerland. It occurs to me that we have to get in line behind foreign competitors to get either H1N1 vaccine or Tamiflu. Why isn't New York based Pfizer, the world's largest drug company, making H1N1 vaccine or Tamiflu? I guess they're too busy selling their big money maker -- Viagra. Oh, and defending themselves from lawsuits. Pfizer just pleaded guilty to the largest drug marketing fraud in U.S. history. I don't know what's worse, foreign competitors or corrupt U.S. drug companies. Prepare for the worst. It's going to be a long flu season.