Bird Flu Monitor > Britain completes stockpile of Tamiflu flu drug

[Enflu] LONDON (Reuters) - The final consignment of Britain's Tamiflu drug stockpile will be delivered this week, putting in place a central plank of contingency plans against a future flu pandemic, the Department of Health said on Wednesday.

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http://birdflublog.blogspot.com [Birdflublog.blogspot.com] THE BIRD FLU BLOG: The Bird Flu Blog will bring together news and official announcements of the spread of avian flu throughout the world, the plans to combat its spread, notes from history on previous pandemics and how they were fought, and a look at the conspiracy theories that are already taking root. This is not academia, this is one person's reportage of a world on the brink of disaster.

[Bird-flu-updates.com] Bird Flu Updates: The outbreaks were detected last week in western and southern China, resulting in the killing of nearly 175,000 birds, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The latest outbreaks brings the total for China in recent weeks to 20.

Fluhelp.org[Fluhelp.org] WHO in talks with Roche on bird flu stockpile at The Flu News Blog: I saw a scary documentary that said the Tamiflu vaccine is the ONLY drug that has been PROVEN EFFECTIVE AGAINST THE NEW KILLER FLU and that because of lack of planning, and there is long waiting list at Roche labs, the US will only be able to have about 2 Million doses for 300 Million people in the US if the flu strikes this year…thus killing millions of people, like the black plague quite some time ago. I would like to know if this is true or just more garbage from the liberal media against a republican president.

Greenhammer: Containment strategy likely to fail; must be tried anyway. May 31 2006, 11:15 PM - Permalink - Send The World Health Organization (WHO) issued on May 30 the third draft of its "Rapid Response and Containment" protocol, which "aims to stop, or at least slow the spread of pandemic influenza at the source of its emergence in order to minimize

[Home (aboutflu.net)] Tamiflu - World must invest in birdflu vaccine -... : star.com.my - GENEVA (Reuters) - The world has spent more than $3 billion to stockpile anti-virals against bird flu but is not investing enough to develop an influenza pandemic vaccine, a top official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. Klaus

http://xrrf.blogspot.com [No Rock&Roll Fun] THE TAMIFLU DON'T WORK: The chickens are falling! Richard Ashcroft has been more than a little frightened by the birdflu panic - apparently he was going to stockpile food and lock himself away from human contact if the slightly-worse-than-normal-flu reached the UK.

[Bird Flu News Blog] Strain of birdflu resistant to tamiflu: Beyond Tamiflu, the Infectious Diseases Society of America recommends stockpiling another antiviral, Relenza, says Andrew Pavia, a member of the group’s task force on pandemic flu. Unlike Tamiflu, which is in pill form, Relenza is given through an inhaler and is harder to administer, especially to patients who are unconscious.

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