Avian Influenza
Rapid response stockpile of Tamiflu now ready and available to the World Health Organization
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 23rd, 2006
A symbolic "handover" event has taken place between Franz B. Humer, chairman and CEO of Roche, and Lee Jong-Wook, director general, WHO. The agreement in which Roche committed to reserve for donation to the WHO a "Rapid Response Stockpile" of 3 million treatment courses (30 million capsules) of the influenza antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) for the use by the WHO was signed on August 22, 2005.
The aim is to contain an emerging outbreak of a novel and potentially pandemic strain of influenza and to slow or...
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