>Curious if they own the patents on the strains of our past "epidemics" as well…
Donald Rumsfeld makes $5m killing on bird flu drug | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-rumsfeld-makes-5m-killing-on-bird-flu-drug-6106843.html
Mar 12, 2006 … Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. … firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu, the drug being bought in massive amounts by …
Donald Rumsfeld's controversial links to drug company behind Tamiflu
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176743/Donald-Rumsfelds-controversial-links-drug-company-Tamiflu.html
Also, IIRC, Ron Brown held the patent to a South American (?) virus. His plane crashed into the side of a mountain after he said that "if I go down, I am not going down alone", (which was a reference to the Clintons).