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2004-10-16 Home Front: Tech

"Major screw-up": Boot-camp virus runs rampant

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Posted by Anonymoose 2004-10-16 11:47:49 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dr. Margaret Ryan, a commander at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego and an expert on the virus, calls the vaccine lapse "indefensible."

Original vaccine manufacturer Wyeth Laboratories warned as early as 1984 that it would stop churning out pills costing $1 each unless defense officials allocated $5 million to repair a deteriorating production plant.

Wyeth executives shuttered the facility in 1996. A military health budget later gave a reason: "suppression of program to pay higher priority items."

The Pentagon's unwillingness to spend $5 million on health care is now costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars to remedy.

1996, eh? Let's see that's also about when the government started buying vaccines, at the lowest price possible, so that all children would be vaccinated and everybody was in a frenzy to sue drug companies over getting some life threatening disease from the DPT vaccination. And now everybody is in an uproar becasue an English company can't produce enough flu vaccine. At least the Amerikkkan drug companies aren't making obscene profits any more.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-17 6:33:10 AM|| 2004-10-17 6:33:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmm 1996 isn't that under Clinton?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-17 6:37:02 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-10-17 6:37:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, right after the switch from Hillarycare to obscene drug company profits.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-17 6:39:54 AM|| 2004-10-17 6:39:54 AM|| Front Page Top

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