{"id":1482,"date":"2009-04-27T08:12:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T13:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/news\/swine-flu-stocks\/"},"modified":"2009-04-27T08:18:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T13:18:52","slug":"swine-flu-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/news\/swine-flu-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Swine Flu Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/streetinsider.com\">StreetInsider.com<\/a>, the following companies may benefit from protection, therapy and\/or vaccination against swine flu.&nbsp; Most of these are highly speculative so trade at your own risk.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha Pro Tech (APT) &#8211; protects people with disposable protective apparel such as masks. <\/p>\n<p>Generex Biotechnology (GNBT) &#8211; developing drug delivery systems. <\/p>\n<p>Hemispherx BioPharma (HEB) &#8211; engaged in drug therapies for viral and immune based chronic disorders. <\/p>\n<p>BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (BCRX) &#8211; develops drugs that block enzymes involved in cancer, viral infections and autoimmune diseases. <\/p>\n<p>AVI BioPharma (AVII)- developing of ribonucleic acid (RNA)-based drugs targeting a range of diseases. <\/p>\n<p>Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) &#8211; pharmaceuticals and human vaccines through sanofi pasteur.<\/p>\n<p>CombiMatrix Corporation (CBMX) &#8211; develops molecular diagnostics, nanotechnology and defense, and homeland security markets. <\/p>\n<p>Gilead Sciences (GILD) &#8211; could benefit from TamaFlu sales.<\/p>\n<p>Off the top of my head I can think of 3 companies that might be hurt by swine flu fears ..<\/p>\n<p>Sanderson Farms (SAFM), Zhongpin (HOGS), Tyson Foods (TSN)<\/p>\n<p>The airlines could very well be hit as well Alaska Airlines (ALK), AMR, Delta (DAL), Southwest (LUV), Continental (CAL), Allegiant (ALGT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to StreetInsider.com, the following companies may benefit from protection, therapy and\/or vaccination against swine flu.&nbsp; Most of these are highly speculative so trade at your own risk. Alpha Pro Tech (APT) &#8211; protects people with disposable protective apparel such as masks. Generex Biotechnology (GNBT) &#8211; developing drug delivery systems. Hemispherx BioPharma (HEB) &#8211; engaged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/news\/swine-flu-stocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swine Flu Stocks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}