Bird Flu Drug Mass Production Technique Discovered

creepygeek writes to mention a New Scientist article detailing a new process for creating Tamiflu, an antiviral drug currently thought to be our best defense against the bird flu. From the article: "Making Tamiflu is slow, partly because shikimic is hard to get, but also because one step in the process involves a highly explosive chemical called an azide. As a result, Tamiflu can be made only in small batches of a few tens of litres at a time. But Elias Corey of Harvard University - who won a Nobel prize in 1990 for chemical synthesis - and colleagues have devised a new way to make the drug from two cheap, plentiful petrochemicals, acrylate and butadiene."

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Bird Flu Shows up where Pig Flu was 30 yrs ago

[Bushido Hacks]

Doesn't anyone think this is a strange conicidence that Donald Rumsfield who was Health and Human Services Secretary during the Gerald Ford Adminstration was given a medal for controling the outbreak of the Swine Flu in 1976 in Burlington County, NJ?

Does anyone think that it is a strange conicidences that Donald Rumsfield is now the Defense Secretary during the GW Bush Adminstration and is going to make a winfall profit from the sale of Tamiflu now that Avian Flu has appeared in neighborhing Camden County, NJ?

Avian Flu is American Bioterrorism manufactured by the government of United States of America so that a few rich WASPs can get away with murder and make a profit from it.

I am level headed by the way. This is not some paranoia rant from some loony wearing a tin-foil hat, it is the honest to God awful truth. Search reliable internet sources!