Flu Outbreak

Three years ago bird flu in Asia caused wide panic but did little damage. However some healthcare stocks - especially those with flu vaccine tie went up in dramatic fashion in short amount of time. This time with the swine flu actually causing damage in Mexico, United States and Europe those bird flu vaccine stocks should get real benefit. Today many of the flu related stocks have already drew crowd of speculators and many went up more than 50%.

Here are the flu related stocks:

• Novavax (NVAX): $2.55 +79.58%
• BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (BCRX): $3.88 +75.57%
• Generex Biotechnology (GNBT): $0.61 +82.09%
• Hemisphrex BioPharma (HEB): $0.81 +39.66%
• Crucell (CRXL): $15.5 +7.86%
• GlaxoSmithKline (GSK): $31.56 +7.57%