Vaccine destroyed

[dirtydog]

Published on November 19, 2005
Anti-bird flu vaccine for birds, worth more than Bt300 million and smuggled into Thailand on the Mekong River, has been seized and destroyed, said customs officials.
The shipments were intercepted in three Chiang Rai districts over the past five months and confiscated in six customs operations.
The vaccine was hidden aboard cargo vessels from China plying the Mekong. All 1,579 confiscated bottles were later incinerated.
Customs officials and police could not take legal action against crewmembers of the ships because they were all foreigners travelling in international waters and therefore under the protection of international law, a customs official said.
Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday classified the anti-viral drug Tamiflu as a special medicine to be sold only on doctors’ orders and only from hospital pharmacies.
The Public Health Ministry said the move was intended to prevent hoarding.
It also aims to stop people from taking the drug as a precautionary measure against catching bird flu, because this will lead the virus to evolve Tamiflu-resistant strains. The Nation

[dirtydog]

World shortage of vaccine,Only in Thailand would they just destroy it....

[Captain Sensible]

World shortage of vaccine,Only in Thailand would they just destroy it....

Where are the conspiracy theorists when you need them? This destruction could so easily be argued was at the behest of the large pharmaceutical companies as it would undermine the sale of their product.

Hell, some say that it is the large pharmaceutical companies that introduced the Birdflu in the first place. Who is to say that they didnt?