Flu

[Ivo Skoric]

When I lived in former Yugoslavia, my mother, who lives in Germany 
used to send me medicine. That was a common practice: ill-developed 
communist Yugoslavia often faced shortages of important medications, 
and Germany was a global leader in pharmaceutical industry. Many 
former Yugoslav citizens got their pills from relatives living and 
working in Germany.

This year, my mom is going to send me a flu shot. Although I do not 
live in former Yugoslavia any more. I live in the U.S. But that 
country is too busy building weapons and fighting wars to thinker 
about such girlie stuff like producing and procurring vaccines to its 
population. So, its citizens, just like citizens of former 
Yugoslavia, have to look abroad for help. CDC hopes to import 
additional vaccines from Canada. Governor Rod Blagojevich (Serbian-
American, btw) of Illinois hopes to buy 30,000 additional shots from 
France. I am getting mine from Germany. 

Sure, B2 bombers look good, and neither Canada, nor France, nor 
Germany have them. But what use are they against such a real 
terrorist enemy like influenza?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/national/25flu.html?th

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