To: Termite_Commander
According to yesterday's Wall Street Journal: As a result of its fast expansion work, Roche said that it will be able to make 400 million treatment courses a year by the end of this year. To date, governments have ordered 200 million treatment courses for their pandemic stockpiles.
To: Zuben Elgenubi
That's good to hear. We've all heard of the possibility that a pandemic strain might be resistant to Tamiflu, though. A quarter of children who were treated with the drug in Vietnam has virus that developed resistance over the antiviral course. Luckily, that resistance never got out of the hospital and had a chance to become a dominant strain.
So Tamiflu still works, for the time being.
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03/18/2006 10:51:02 AM PST by
Termite_Commander
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