Friday, January 20, 2006
We don't need this.
Well, now I read the Chinese are expanding their broad inclination to flood the market with counterfeit goods such as CD's, compute programs, etc. They commonly take technology from others but now their pursuit of a dollar is putting all of us at increased risk to avian flu. Some large number of companies are trying to make bird flu vaccines to sell to farmers to protect their flocks. The problem is they don't know how to make vaccines so the farmers are paying a lot of money to inject the flock with stuff which has live virus or too little dead virus and the birds are either dying off despite vaccinations or even worse, developing a resistance to the virus which could render good vaccines worthless.