The number of pandemics, epidemics, viruses that have hit humanity causes less threat than the amount of drugs available for their cure. It is the responsibility of the drug companies to speed up with Tamiflu, Avastin and the likes. In this delay, the poor people are the worst sufferers. Thailand has piled up drugs to treat only 62,000 people when the total population under threat is 62mn.
Well, the article published in Observer spells it right when it says that it is in the hands of the drug companies to accommodate vaccines to accommodate the ‘hopes and dreams, whether or not bird flu becomes a mass killer’