Bird flu pandemic? http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/20/MTFH19822_2005-09-20_05-56-51_SCH016489.html
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53939 Maybe one of you knows something about which drug is best and where a UK subject can get it?
A major Canadian brokerage firm has added its voice to those warning of the potential global impact of an influenza pandemic, suggesting it could trigger a crisis similar to that of the Great Depression. Real estate values would be slashed, bankruptcies would soar and the insurance industry would be decimated, a newly released investor guide on avian influenza warns clients of BMO Nesbitt Burns. "It's quite analogous to the Great Depression in many ways, although obviously caused by very different reasons,'' says co-author Sherry Cooper, chief economist of the firm and executive vice-president of the BMO Financial Group. "We won't have 30-per-cent unemployment because frankly, many people will die. And there will be excess demand for labour and yet, at the same time, it will absolutely crunch the economy worldwide.'' Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, identifies why financial and business sectors - which have been slow to twig to the implications of a flu pandemic - are hearing this warning sounded by public health and infectious disease experts. "The financial world is finally waking up to the fact that this could be the boulder in the gear of the global economy,'' he said, suggesting a pandemic could trigger an implosion of international trade unlike anything seen in modern history. He warns, "All the other catastrophes we've had in the world in recent years at the very most put screen doors on our borders. This would seal shut a six-inch steel door."
GenoMed Charges That Cure for Most Kidney Failure Has Been Suppressed Thursday September 22, 1:00 pm ET ST. LOUIS, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GenoMed (Pink Sheets: GMED - News), a Next Generation Disease Management company whose business is public health, charged today that news of its ability to prevent up to 90% of chronic kidney disease has been suppressed for the past three years. Here is the link to the whole story... http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050922/cgth034.html?.v=23
I hate posting about BB and PK stocks, but GMED was up 20% today on big volume. If bird flu keeps getting as much media coverage, this piece of junk might really get moving (had a decent spike last year on the bird flu scare). Full disclosure-- I bought a lottery ticket when it was at .032.