Birdflu/Tamiflu conspiracy???

**Quasievil** · 4th May 2006, 08:07

I Got this email today, thought it was interesting, so here ya go have a look, decide for your self
(below cut n paste)

Do you know that 'bird flu' was discovered in Vietnam 9 years
> ago?
>
> Do you know that barely 100 people have died in the whole world
> in all that time?
>
> Do you know that it was the Americans who alerted us to the
> efficacy of the human antiviral TAMIFLU as a preventative.
>
> Do you know that TAMIFLU barely alleviates some symptoms of the
> common flu?
>
> Do you know that its efficacy against the common flu is
> questioned by a great part of the scientific community?
>
> Do you know that against a SUPPOSED mutant virus such as H5N1,
> TAMIFLU barely alleviates the illness?
>
> Do you know that to date Avian Flu affects birds only?
>
> Do you know who markets TAMIFLU?
>
> ROCHE LABORATORIES.
>
> Do you know who bought the patent for TAMIFLU from ROCHE
> LABORATORIES in 1996?
>
> GILEAD SCIENCES INC.
>
> Do you know who was the then president of GILEAD SCIENCES INC.
> and remains a major shareholder?
>
> DONALD RUMSFELD, the present Secretary of Defence of the USA.
>
> Do you know that the base of TAMIFLU is crushed aniseed?
>
> Do you know who controls 90% of the world's production of this
> tree?
>
> ROCHE.
>
> Do you know that sales of TAMIFLU were over $254 million in 2004
> and more than $1000 million in 2005?
>
> Do you know how many more millions ROCHE can earn in the coming
> months if the business of fear continues?
>
>
> So the summary of the story is as follows:
>
> Bush's friends decide that the medicine TAMIFLU is the solution
> for a pandemic that has not yet occurred and that has caused a
> hundred deaths worldwide in 9 years.
>
> This medicine doesn't so much as cure the common flu.
>
> In normal conditions the virus does not affect humans.
>
> Rumsfeld sells the patent for TAMIFLU to ROCHE for which they
> pay him a fortune.
> Roche acquires 90% of the global production of crushed aniseed,
> the base for the antivirus.
>
> The governments of the entire world threaten a pandemic and then
> buy industrial quantities of the product from Roche.
>
> So we end up paying for medicine while Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush
> do the business.
>
> ARE WE CRAZY!!? OR ARE WE IDIOTS!!?
>
> AT LEAST PASS THIS ON SO THAT IT CAN BE KNOWN!!!!!!!