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The Motley Fool July 20, 2007 Andrew R. Vaino	BioCryst Is for the Birds Fears of bird flu resurrected a drug for this small pharma, and it has some other promising compounds in the pipeline. Based only on its pipeline size, BioCryst should be valued higher. But make no mistake: This is a risky stock.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2005 Brian Gorman	Is BioCryst For Real? Investors may have been right about BioCryst, but for the wrong reasons. Investors were clearly betting a lot on a drug that is still in early phase testing and had failed in the past.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2007 Brian Orelli	Size Does Matter BioCryst announces failed phase 2 data with an excuse, and plans phase 3 before year-end. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2006 Rich Duprey	Avian Flu Ruffling Feathers Roche Pharmaceuticals boosts anti-flu drug production to quiet calls for generics. While the situation bears watching for now, it's not necessarily something for investors to get their feathers ruffled about.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Capitalist Pig's View of Swine Flu So you want to make money from the swine flu? Here's how to do so.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2005 Brian Gorman	Chasing Down Bird Flu Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline are emerging as the likely winners in the race to produce a bird flu vaccine.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	How to Make a Stockpile in Your Portfolio The swine flu has turned out to be a relative dud, hasn't it? It hasn't done much but create a buying opportunity for those who didn't panic. Where should you look to profit from it now?
The Motley Fool March 30, 2006 David Compton	Glaxo's New Flu-Fighting Ammo The FDA certifies the drugmaker's Relenza for defense as well as offense. For investors seeking to give their portfolios a shot in the arm, now might be the time to take a closer look at Glaxo.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2009 Brian Orelli	Here Come the Swine Flu Vaccines Drugmakers moved one step closer to getting swine flu vaccines into your arm with approvals by the Food and Drug Administration.
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2005 Anthony Tao	The Avian Few: Is it Too Late for Pharma to Re-enter the Vaccine Fray? Small profit margins and high litigation risks drove most companies out of the vaccine business decades ago. As a possible pandemic looms, pharma re-enters the fray. Is it too late?
The Motley Fool December 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	Swine Flu Just Isn't Bringing Home the Bacon Looks like that one-time boost from sales of swine flu vaccine may not add much to the bottom lines of vaccine makers like GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, sanofi-aventis, and Novartis.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2005 Patrick Clinton	From the Editor: It Never Changes (Until It Does) Change is bubbling around through the industry, its customers, and its regulators. Should pharmaceutical companies be doing the equivalent of taking two aspirin and calling in the morning or building an ark?
BusinessWeek February 9, 2004 Catherine Arnst	What You Need To Know About Avian Flu The current avian flu outbreak in Asia is the fifth since 1997 to infect humans. This has raised a red flag for infectious disease experts, who fear the strain could mutate and spark a devastating flu pandemic.
The Motley Fool October 28, 2005 Rich Duprey	Chiron's Bird Flu Contract As Asian bird flu becomes the crisis du jour, this flu vaccine biotech is awarded a hefty contract.
BusinessWeek September 19, 2005 Catherine Arnst	A Hot Zone In The Heartland Little could be done to contain a deadly avian flu outbreak. Right now, the U.S. has no national pandemic preparedness plan, either for treating large numbers of patients or for dealing with the resulting economic and social disruptions.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Brian Lawler	Happy (Sniffle) Holidays (Cough) It's flu season again, and the market for influenza vaccines is hot. Pharma investors, take note.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Avian Influenza 101 Here is everything you need to now about avian influenza so that you can better protect yourself.
AskMen.com	Drug-Resistant Swine Flu Surfaces Health officials have confirmed a case of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, the leading pharmaceutical weapon against the new virus.
Searcher June 2006 Eva C. Perkins	Is the Price of Cheap Chicken Bird Flu? Information professionals are faced with a situation in which our skills are called upon to soothe the public with reassuring data about the avian flu.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2010 Brian Orelli	Glaxo Brings Home the Bacon Swine flu gives GlaxoSmithKline the boost, but how long will it last?
Managed Care November 2002	Flu season: Most HMO formularies cover Tamiflu, Relenza As the influenza season approaches, managed care patient access to Tamiflu (oseltamivir) from Roche Laboratories and Relenza (zanamivir) from GlaxoSmithKline, the two medications indicated for influenza, looks relatively open.
The Motley Fool September 2, 2005 Rich Duprey	Will Flu Vaccine Catch Cold? The CDC says we may have as many as 97 million doses this year, but that's a best-case scenario. This year again, it's Chiron causing the uncertainty.
Scientific American May 2005 Christine Soares	Cooping Up Avian Flu Buying time to arm for a pandemic is possible--maybe.
The Motley Fool January 15, 2012 Brian Orelli	3 Lessons From the J.P. Morgan Health-Care Confab After 30 years, the conference still offers useful takeaways. This years: Some biotechs never die... In the United States, more people die from flu each year than die from HIV AIDS... Drug launches are back (maybe)...
BusinessWeek October 11, 2004	Bird Flu In Thailand: New Fears The death of a 26-year-old Bangkok woman is raising fears that the deadly avian flu may be "learning" how to spread among people -- a step towards a potentially devastating epidemic.
American Family Physician September 1, 2006 Gregory Juckett	Avian Influenza: Preparing for a Pandemic Preparing for a new influenza pandemic involves increasing global influenza surveillance and developing practical strategies for containing outbreaks at the source.
Chemistry World January 7, 2014 Angeli Mehta	Flu drug stockpile may be worthless The case for spending hundreds of millions of pounds stockpiling antivirals for use in a flu pandemic is based on 'judgement rather than on evidence of their effectiveness', according to a parliamentary committee.
Chemistry World July 24, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	Pharma's shot in the arm? As swine flu cases continue to erupt around the globe, the latest financial results from pharmaceutical companies Roche and GlaxoSmithKline reveal that sales of their antiviral drugs have soared.
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 John Carey	New Vaccines For A Pandemic Using DNA, vast amounts of flu vaccine could be made quickly. But will the drugs work?
The Motley Fool June 12, 2009 Brian Orelli	Be Careful What You Wish For Do you have the stomach to profit from swine flu?
The Motley Fool October 14, 2005 Rich Duprey	Chiron Ready to Fly Flu vaccine maker readies first shipments as flu season begins and avian flu fears rise.
Adventure February 2006 Ken Kamler	Ask Dr. Extreme Should avian bird flu alter travel plans to Laos?
Chemistry World February 2006	Editorial: Fighting Avian Flu Participants at a world avian flu conference in Beijing committed to increasing cooperation on global vaccine and anti-viral research and development.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Swine Flu: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Here is a short list of what we do and don't know of swine flu.
The Motley Fool February 23, 2010 Brian Orelli	The End of a Swine Flu Era A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended yesterday that next year's seasonal flu vaccine contain the vaccine for the H1N1 virus, aka the swine flu.
Reactive Reports Issue 73 David Bradley	Fake Bird Flu Chemists have developed a rapid technique for detecting fake Tamiflu, the mainstay medication for preventing and treating bird flu.
Chemistry World November 27, 2012 Andrew Turley	Roche and the Tamiflu data The Swiss pharma company has agreed to talk to external groups about full access to data for antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) tablets, according to a letter published by the British Medical Journal.
Scientific American July 2009 Christine Soares	Could Animal Surveillance Have Seen Swine Flu Coming? The surveillance of animals for new flu viruses has lagged behind preparations for the human pandemics that can be caused by the bugs
Scientific American November 2005	Preparing for the Worst Flu season comes every year as reliably as hurricane season. If America shores up our defenses against both, we will be in a much stronger position when the "big ones" hit.
Popular Mechanics March 2006 Jeff Wise	Fighting Fire With Fire By recreating an extinct virus that killed as many as 50 million people, scientists race to defeat avian flu before it evolves into a deadlier form.
Managed Care February 2005 Jack McCain	Managed Care (and Everyone Else) Unprepared for the Next Killer Flu Could avian flu give rise to a pandemic that might rival the fearsome Spanish flu? Is the nation ready? Health plans may be called upon to administer vaccinations and identify high-risk patients, but what about he millions of Americans who lack health insurance?
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Swine Flu Update With the fall flu season rapidly approaching, a swine flu update is warranted.
Popular Mechanics July 31, 2007 John Galvin	Spanish Flu Pandemic: 1918 The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people around the world -- 34 million more than died from the First World War in progress alongside it.
AskMen.com Jen Woodward	False Pandemic Scares While nobody can say for sure if or when another pandemic will strike, these historic false alarms might soothe your fears.
Entrepreneur August 2006 Chris Penttila	The Hot Zone Prepare your business for the outbreak of bird flu or any other possible pandemic before you're really in trouble.
Managed Care December 2005 Jack McCain	Flu's Other Cost If the next pandemic is anything like the 1918 outbreak, hospitals could be overburdened, while some small regional health plans might see their membership decimated, or worse.
InternetNews October 14, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Nanotech Battles Bird Flu Several nanotech and IT firms say their products could help detect the virus and slow its spread.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Bird Flu Planning Isn't for the Birds Buffalo Wild Wings discusses its strategy for dealing with the threat of avian flu. It's impossible to completely eliminate some risks, but it's quite possible for an astute firm to effectively manage any adversity that may come down its path. Investors, take note.
Health June 19, 2009 Ginny Graves	How to Combat the Latest Supergerms While some germs may be outpacing our ability to kill them, we're not completely defenseless. In fact, there are plenty of things we can do to slow their spread.
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