Pandemic spells profit for pharmaceutical giants like Sanofi-Aventis (SNY), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Merck who represent the top three producers of vaccines to treat H1N1 or swine flu. A couple weeks ago the World Health Organization prepared to declare the first worldwide pandemic in four decades and with that news the aforementioned pharmaceutical stocks began to rise 1 on the board. At that time 27,737 H1N1 infections had been reported across seventy-four countries including 141 deat

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Pharmaceutical Stocks Get Boost from Swine Flu?