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PARIS (AFP) ? Pharmaceutical giant Roche stopped delivering the flu remedy Tamiflu to French high street pharmacies on Thursday, after panic over the swine flu outbreak saw it disappearing off the shelves.
"We're not out of stock," Roche France said in a statement. "It is our responsibility to reserve Tamiflu for hospitals and health authorities.
"In order to allow rapid distribution to hospitals so that any suspected cases can be treated, Roche has decided today to suspend Tamiflu deliveries to shops and wholesalers," the company explained.
Tamiflu is one of the medicines recognised by the World Health Organisation as effective in treating the new strain of the A/H1N1 swine flu virus that has spread across the world from a recent outbreak in Mexico.
Worried French consumers have been buying up the drug for fear the virus will infect their families, even though health experts advise that this is a needless precaution in a country with adequate public health facilities.
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"We're not out of stock," Roche France said in a statement. "It is our responsibility to reserve Tamiflu for hospitals and health authorities.
"In order to allow rapid distribution to hospitals so that any suspected cases can be treated, Roche has decided today to suspend Tamiflu deliveries to shops and wholesalers," the company explained.
Tamiflu is one of the medicines recognised by the World Health Organisation as effective in treating the new strain of the A/H1N1 swine flu virus that has spread across the world from a recent outbreak in Mexico.
Worried French consumers have been buying up the drug for fear the virus will infect their families, even though health experts advise that this is a needless precaution in a country with adequate public health facilities.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j0g8mOFeQael0wAaEyLDCagwtnGw