Swine flu alert clears old stock of Tamiflu (drugs, companies, dollars)

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Swine flu alert clears old stock of Tamiflu

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It is almost three years since we faced the hysteria of an avian flu
epidemic, when governments bought billions of dollars of Tamiflu – the
same anti-viral now being promoted to combat a supposed swine flu
pandemic. The shelf life of Tamiflu also happens to be three years.

The World Health Organization has, at the time of writing, increased
its threat level to five, which means governments can activate their
pandemic plans – and start handing out Tamiflu drugs.

This is extremely convenient for governments that would have very soon
have to dispose of billions of dollars of Tamiflu stock, which they
bought to counter avian flu, or H5N1. The US government ordered 20
million doses, costing $2bn, in October, 2005, and around that time
the UK government ordered 14.6 million doses. Tamiflu’s manufacturer,
Roche, has confirmed that the shelf life of its anti-viral is three
years.

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Thanks to big daddy gubmint, these pharmaceutical companies are going to make a killing!

But gubmint is there to "protect you", so no need to worry.