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'The Threat Is Real': Protein Supply Chain Disrupted As Hog Disease Spreads
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 8:36am | 527Read More...Over the last year, African swine fever wiped out 1 million hogs in China and many more across Europe and Southeast Asia. “This is an unusual, perhaps unprecedented time of the protein industry,” Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) CEO Noel White said on Monday’s second-quarter earnings...
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Oink Oink: Profit From The Return Of Swine Flu
Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 2:40pm | 530Read More...Believe it or not, the H1N1 virus, more commonly known as the swine flu, is back. The disease that killed more than 17,000 around the world between 2009 and mid-2010, according to NBC, has been found in patients living in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Maine, and Indiana. The Center for...
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How Hysteria Kills The Market (NVAX)
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 1:30pm | 643Read More...Asteroids. Y2K. The swine flu. Mad Cow disease. Killer wasps and killer Wi-Fi. What do these things have in common? They're all part of a graph designed by Information is Beautiful. Dubbed Mountains Out of Molehills, the graph is an interesting (and interactive) look at the world's greatest fears...
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How to Play, Profit, and Protect From India’s NDM-1 Superbug (APT)
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 3:10pm | 362Read More...NDM-1—it’s the new swine flu, except this “superbug” is resistant to most drugs, which can make the ramifications of a pandemic or endemic exponentially greater. Health experts say NDM-1 can exist inside different bacteria, like E.coli, and it makes them resistant to most antibiotics. Scientists...
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The Doomsday Investment: Real Assets
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 6:00am | 973Read More...Every time I turn on the news the media has found another “doomsday” story to scare the masses into thinking that the world is going to end. Y2K, Avian Flu, SARS, Swine Flu, terrorist attacks, drug wars, and multiple financial crises have been the most prominent topics of the...
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Flu, Swine Flu, and Anti-Viral Prescriptions Well Under Norms
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 1:14pm | 143Read More...Pharmaceutical investors counting on a strong flu season and sales of antivirals like Tamiflu, Amantadine, and Relenza may want to prepare for disappointment… almost all of them are below the norms as well as below expectations according to data from Nataxis Bleichroeder. Amantadine prescriptions...
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Microsoft (MSFT) Launches H1N1 Swineflu Website
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 8:46am | 33Read More...This morning Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) launched an H1N1 swineflu info website which is located at Swine Flu.
