On Feb 9, 3:16 pm, James Annan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hank roberts wrote:
...
> > pandemic influenza -- is just not something the market system has any
> > way of dealing with, if only because the future discounting makes any
> > action at all seem improvident to take at the present time.
>
> You could say that the market system _is_ dealing with it, albeit
> perhaps not in the way you would choose were you king of the world....
I stand corrected:
Indonesia May Sell, Not Give, Bird Flu Virus to Scientists ...
Indonesia has stopped sending samples of the virus to the World
Health ... "Just imagine, they could research, use and patent the
Indonesia strain." ...
www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/world/asia/07birdflu.html
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