According to the Financial Times, Roche is in talks with U.S. government officials for more than a billion dollars worth of Tamiflu. The antiviral flu medication helps people recover faster from the flu, and is one of the types of drugs that governments have been stockpiling to help ward off a potential flu pandemic in the coming winter. Roche is staying tight-lipped on the topic, though, saying only that it is involved in talks concerning Tamiflu. The FT raised questions on Roche's ability to make a sufficient quantity of Tamiflu to fulfill the contract.
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