Word: tamiflu
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...Rosenthal said. “We’re well aware of it.” The University will supplement its supply of face masks left over from the 2003 SARS outbreak as part of its preparations. No medications to combat bird flu, however, are available for purchase. Tamiflu, the one medication doctors think may be effective with avian influenza A, is no longer available for private purchases in the United States. Its Swiss maker, Roche Holding AG, said it was temporarily discontinuing shipments amidst concerns about hoarding, the Washington Post reported on Oct. 27. Deborah S. Yokoe, an infectious...
...Tamiflu prescriptions filled in one week last month in the U.S., nearly quadruple the number for that week last year...
...were hospitalized last week with symptoms of the disease, and China's health chief said the country would seal its borders if it found even a single case of human-to-human transmission. India and Taiwan have declared they intend to make generic copies of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to be sure of having enough. And authorities elsewhere are going on alert. Romania began vaccinating poultry workers and residents of the Danube delta. Quarantine officials in the U.K. suspected an imported parrot was carrying the h5n1 virus, but it died before it could infect local birds. In Africa...
...Roche has donated Tamiflu to Turkey and Romania, where the H5N1 influenza virus has lately made an appearance, and given 30 million doses to the World Health Organization. But until its recent change of heart, the company had maintained that while it can't produce as much as the world is demanding, it alone would retain the right to sell the medicine. Anyone hoping to replicate the 10-step manufacturing process, it had warned, would spend around three years ramping up production from scratch...
...probably well after--isn't likely to subside. It will continue to draw manufacturers considerably less concerned than is Roche about its intellectual property rights. Cipla, an Indian generics manufacturer that already sells cheap HIV drugs to African countries, now plans to begin selling a generic version of Tamiflu at cut-rate prices--and says it will do so probably within three months, regardless of whether the Swiss drug firm grants it a license. Roche says it is willing to talk to Cipla, but hasn't heard from the Bombay-based firm yet. It's probably in Cipla's interests...