GTC Biotherapeutics (fka GTCB)

[HobGlobulin]

From "The Demon in the Freezer" by Richard Preston (Barbara Birke was a German nursing student who contracted hemorrhagic smallpox from a patient at St. Walberga Hospital in 1970):

>> With flat hemorrhagic smallpox, the immune system goes into shock and cannot produce pus, while the virus amplifies with incredible speed and appears to sweep through the major organs of the body. Barbara Birke went into a condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), in which the blood begins to clot inside small vessels that leak blood at the same time. ... <<

I believe the U.S. government has spent around half a billion dollars to provide smallpox vaccine for everyone old enough to receive it. I also believe they are ready to spend a similar sum on a new vaccine for the 10% of the population who are too immune-compromised to be candidates for the old vaccine.

From "The Demon in the Freezer" I learned scientists are able to infect macaque monkeys with hemorrhagic smallpox. If ATryn is efficacious in treating DIC, the news may become known sooner than expected.

Hob

>> Mother Nature is an extremely powerful force and she has ways of wreaking havoc in a manner which you never imagined. <<

Isn't that the point Jeff Goldblum kept making in "Jurassic Park?"