Word: tamiflu
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...While the spread of bird flu has yet to cause significant panic, the government is taking seriously fears that the virus may jump into the human population. On Friday, Health Minister Siti Fadila Supari announced that Indonesia had been granted a license to produce Tamiflu, the best-known treatment for bird flu. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche approved requests to domestically produce and distribute the medication in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, where the anti-viral drug is not patent protected...
...Beijing next January. The Geneva gathering hammered out a plan to combat the virus by culling infected poultry, strengthening early warning systems and pandemic preparedness, and building up regional stockpiles of anti-viral drugs and influenza vaccines. The WHO already has a stockpile of three million doses of Tamiflu that can be quickly deployed, while the drug's manufacturer, Roche, this week announced plans to increase production to 300 million treatments...
...That's worth remembering as bird-flu panic begins to intensify around the world. In the West, individuals rattled by the news that the disease has hit poultry populations on the edges of Europe are buying up supplies of the antiviral drug Tamiflu. In Asia, where fresh outbreaks were reported in three countries last week, government officials in China and Australia have already warned of the possibility that they might close national borders in the event of a pandemic...
...Hoarding antivirals?which may not even be that effective in the event of a pandemic?reduces the availability of the drugs at a time when supplies are already limited, and could result in more people dying of normal flu this season. To combat hoarding, Roche, the company that makes Tamiflu, recently suspended shipments to private suppliers in several countries. Closing borders in the case of a pandemic would not only be ineffective?unlike SARS, flu is too contagious to be contained?but would also prove economically disastrous in a deeply interconnected world. "Panic is a bad stimulus for action," says...
...Recent increase in the price of star anise, following reports that the Chinese fruit is used to produce the drug Tamiflu, which can help treat bird...