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Want Drugs in a Flu Pandemic? Reserve Them Now, Cheap!

Posted on June 27, 2008

At Health Blog HQ, we can t even get a burrito for six bucks. But that s all it will cost to supposedly guarantee a supply of Roche s drug Tamiflu if the next big flu pandemic breaks out.The fortunes of the drug have risen and fallen lately on fears of a global flu pandemic. A while back, when worries about the H5N1 strain of bird flu were running high, Roche cranked up production of the antiflu drug. But now that worries have subsided, demand has fallen. World-wide sales for the quarter ended in March were down 64% from the year-earlier period, to 278 million Swiss francs ($269 million)...

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