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Who.inthttp://www.who.int [Who.int] Donation of three million treatments of oseltamivir to WHO will help early response to an emerging influenza pandemic

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http://birdflublog.blogspot.com [Birdflublog.blogspot.com] THE BIRD FLU BLOG: The World Health Organisation claims publicly it has a stockpile of 80,000 treatments courses of the anti-viral oseltamivir (Tamiflu) that it can use to try and head off a pandemic, but WHO has not specified the length of the treatment courses. No anti-viral medication have been 100% proven to stop a bird flu pandemic in humans, as the virus will keep evolving, mutating, through the flow of infections.

Reason.comhttp://www.reason.com [Reason.com] Reason: Bird Flu: Threat or Menace?: Why avian sniffles need not ...: Reacting to the wildly escalating estimates of pandemic flu deaths, the World Health Organization suggested on October 1 that the most likely scenario would result in a death toll of between 2 million and 7.4 million people. That's not nothing, but keep in mind that 2 million people around the world died in the 1957 pandemic.

[Avianflu.typepad.com] Avian Flu - What we need to know: Vietnam receives drug donation: Vietnam has received a donation of 600,000 tablets of the bird flu drug Tamiflu from Taiwan and is planning to buy another 70,000 tablets for its national stockpile, health officials said Thursday.

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