Donald Rumsfeld stands to profit financially from the current bird flu scare.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has recused himself from government decisions concerning medications to prevent or treat avian flu, rather than sell his stock holdings in the company that patented the antiviral agent Tamiflu, according to a Pentagon memorandum issued Thursday.

See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/politics/28rummy.html.

See also:
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/GMO/gmo.html.