Roche stockpiles Tamiflu for bird flu

Roche says that it has assembled a stockpile of 30 million capsules--three million treatment courses--of Tamiflu that is ready for the World Health Organization on request. Roche can deliver the drugs on demand to any international airport that is requested by WHO. The drugs are intended to slow the spread of a potential pandemic. Roche has been rapidly scaling up its production capability of Tamiflu, saying it can now produce up to 400 million treatment courses a year.

- read the MarketWatch report on the stockpile

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