India - Leads with Bird Flu and Call Centers

Following the move from obscurity to superiority worldwide in technology based call centers, India has moved to stake a claim in the lucrative world of vaccine.

Competing with the likes of multi-billion dollar Roche and in just 6-months, a low cost bird flu vaccine.

At a predicted 35 paise retail per dose (US$ 0.65) and with six months protection the $160 million investment appears to have paved the way for bird vaccination instead of eradication.

More on India's own bird flu vaccine at just 35 paise from DailyIndia.com

BirdFlu Like a Dell Notebook

Just as uncomfortable as a Dell notebook sitting in your lap waiting for the exploding battery to wake you up. .. lock up your battery birds the bird flu is about to hit the news fan again.

Migrating birds flying into Turkey in October last year marked the first signs of H5N1 spreading. Not Turkeys of course but migrating birds putting at risk the poultry battery hens we all want to protect.

Vaccinate them all now is the bleat from the flock of Nature Observers Association (NOA) members, no mention of an Ark though.

Has anyone really considered the logistics of vaccinating every friendly bird in the world and who decides the bad ones - well Dell are recalling all the laptops?

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Breeding Bird Flu Test Fails

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have tried to combine a common human flu virus with H5N1 Avian bird flu and have failed to make it spread.

You can read about this study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2.

Whilst some could argue the sense in tinkering with deadly viruses to try to make a human spreadable version, at least this experiment goes some of the way to reducing the fear propaganda used by large corporates to line their pockets with our hard-earned cash.

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