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Zocor 40 mg Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27 Cost of general active ingredients:
$8.63 Percent markup: 4,059%

Zoloft 50 mg Consumer price: $206.87 Cost of general active ingredients: $1.75 Percent
markup: 11 ,821%

Sharon L. Davis, Budget Analyst, US Department of Commerce Room 6839 Office Ph: 202-482-
4458; Office Fax: 202-482-5480 Email Address: sdavis@docgov

Mary Palmer, Budget Analyst, Bureau of Economic Analysis Office of Budget & Finance;
Voice: (202) 606-929

The news that WHO might declare a pandemic level 6 led to vaccien companies preparing to
make as many as 4.9 billion vaccines against the so-called swine flu, ensuring them gigantic
profits just from the sakes alone.

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There's widespread expectation that the World Health Organization
will declare a phase 6 pandemic alert this morning--the first such
warning since 1968.

But you can also expect the WHO's health experts to spend a
considerable amount of time and effort reassuring the globe that this
is not the deadly viral outbreak that has worried governments for
generations. And vaccine developers are already well on the way to
developing new jabs that guard against the new flu.

"It's 24 hours a day," Dr. Giovanni Della Cioppa, head of Global
Clinical Research & Development for Novartis Vaccines, tells
FierceVaccines. "We are working to get this vaccine to the public as
quickly as possible."

WHO has been studying a phase 6 alert for weeks as evidence grows
that the swine flu virus has taken hold in countries around the world.
In Australia, there have been 1,000 confirmed cases, offering
considerable data that the virus has extended outside of North