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A blog entry at the Wall Street Journal Online reveals a giant vaccine and pharmaceutical company, Glaxo, has not fully prepared its staff for a pandemic . If a flu vaccine contractor does not already have 100% of its workforce vaccinated against H5N1, I have to ask, why?