Europe prepares medicine stocks in case of pandemic disease "bird flu", "Roche" provided "tamiflu" medicine

Swiss pharmaceutical company "Roche" announced that it would donate 3 million therapies (30 million doses) of antivirus medicine "tamiflu" to the World Health Organization in case of pandemic spreadening of "bird flu“ among people. According to epidemiologists, it is very likely that such thing will happen.

"Roche" got orders for "tamiflu" from 30 countries. France, Finland, Iceland, Louxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and Great Britain have made or ordered the supplies of that medicine, which would be enough to cover 20-40% of entire population.