Spence
10-21-2004, 09:08 AM
So much for that boycott of "Old Europe."A French pharmaceutical company will supply 2.6 million extra anti-flu shots to help the United States cope with a vaccine shortage that has sparked public concern, a top US health official said on Tuesday.
Tommy Thompson, Health and Human Services Secretary for the United States, said Aventis-Pasteur, a division of French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis, will raise the number of vaccines available in the US to 58 million in January.
The doses represent more than half of what the United States needs.
The country experienced a shortage after British authorities closed down a factory run by US pharmaceutical firm Chiron Corporation after finding bacteria in their vaccines. The factory provides almost half the 100 million doses needed each year by the United States.Ah, how sweet is this. The skulls of a million wingnuts exploding into chunks of red goo at the thought of being bailed out by the French after a U.S. company let us down! I love it. Hopefully, at least one "news" anchor at Fox will kill him/herself rather than read it on the air.
I know all those Toby Keith-lovin' righties in here join me in shouting a big "Merci, France!" across the pond.
Source (http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=2268281)
Tommy Thompson, Health and Human Services Secretary for the United States, said Aventis-Pasteur, a division of French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis, will raise the number of vaccines available in the US to 58 million in January.
The doses represent more than half of what the United States needs.
The country experienced a shortage after British authorities closed down a factory run by US pharmaceutical firm Chiron Corporation after finding bacteria in their vaccines. The factory provides almost half the 100 million doses needed each year by the United States.Ah, how sweet is this. The skulls of a million wingnuts exploding into chunks of red goo at the thought of being bailed out by the French after a U.S. company let us down! I love it. Hopefully, at least one "news" anchor at Fox will kill him/herself rather than read it on the air.
I know all those Toby Keith-lovin' righties in here join me in shouting a big "Merci, France!" across the pond.
Source (http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=2268281)