1.0 link 9126 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/preparing-for-bird-flu-us_b_9126.html For the second time in four years the United States is facing a shortage of a critical medicine that might be needed in the event of a catastrophic health emergency. In both cases, the shortage was more severe because the Bush Administration was unwilling to issue a compulsory license on patents in order buy generic medicines. This time there is a new twist -- the United States and 22 other countries are barred from using a key provision in a...

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