WHO puts Tamiflu maker on alert to ready global stockpile of bird flu drugs
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564741732441654133
(Also carried by Indonesian news sites.)
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillgen.asp?fileid=20060527150520&irec=2
May 27, 2006 12:51 AM
KUBU SIMBELANG, Indonesia (AP) - The World Health Organization has for the first time asked the maker of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu to ready the global stockpile after human-to-human transmission was suspected in a family cluster in Indonesia, a WHO official said Saturday.
The WHO in Jakarta received word from the Indonesian Health Ministry on Monday of possible human-to-human spread of the virus in a village in North Sumatra.
That prompted the Geneva-based global health organization to put Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG on alert, said Jules Pieters, director of WHO's rapid response and containment group in Geneva.
AP-WS-05-27-06 0347EDT
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564741732441654133
(Also carried by Indonesian news sites.)
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillgen.asp?fileid=20060527150520&irec=2
May 27, 2006 12:51 AM
KUBU SIMBELANG, Indonesia (AP) - The World Health Organization has for the first time asked the maker of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu to ready the global stockpile after human-to-human transmission was suspected in a family cluster in Indonesia, a WHO official said Saturday.
The WHO in Jakarta received word from the Indonesian Health Ministry on Monday of possible human-to-human spread of the virus in a village in North Sumatra.
That prompted the Geneva-based global health organization to put Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG on alert, said Jules Pieters, director of WHO's rapid response and containment group in Geneva.
AP-WS-05-27-06 0347EDT
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