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Singapore: Tamiflu sales up

Posted on October 07, 2008

Via Channel NewsAsia: Tamiflu sales up due to stockpiling, use on severe flu cases. Excerpt:Drug company Roche said sales of anti-viral drug Tamiflu have gone up in tandem with flu cases this year. Tamiflu is not just being stockpiled to fight against the avian flu, but also prescribed to patients down with severe flu. When Dr Chong Yeh Woei sees patients with severe flu, he takes no chances, sending their blood samples for tests. And he has had to do more of it recently as more patients come in with bad bouts of flu, some even developing into pneumonia. In the last two months, (I've) prescri...

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