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Bird flu frenzy

Health
2005-11-01

"Against all scientific prudence and normal public health procedure, the world population is being whipped up into a fear frenzy by irresponsible public health officials...

In 1997 Donald H. Rumsfeld was named Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences, where he remained until early 2001 when he became Defense Secretary.... [he is] one of its largest if not the largest stock owners today... President Bush has ordered the US Government to buy $2 billion worth of Gilead Science's Tamiflu... "

See: William Engdahl article (2005-10)