WHO placed drug company Tamiflu on alert

The most recent Indonesian victim died of bird flu, which caused the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday to put drug manufacturer Tamiflu, Roche, on alert: hoarding more drugs to deal with global flu if it happens.

Tamiflu medicine (Photo: diariomalaga)

To date, the Swiss pharmaceutical company has provided WHO with five million doses of the drug and with the help of its partners, the company promised to produce 400 million doses a year since 2007. Roche said it will deliver Tamiflu. Anywhere in the world at any time when needed. This is the first time Roche has been alarmed like this. Within the next two weeks if no group of patients infected with H5N1 and the situation is less dangerous, the alarm will be lifted.

On the same day, the WHO confirmed the number of people killed by bird flu in Indonesia up to 36 people out of 48 infected. The organization has also delivered an additional 9,500 doses of Tamiflu along with defense devices to Indonesia. Meanwhile, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) urged people in many countries to abandon the habit of raising chickens and ducks in their homes and all poultry business needs to be carried out at focus points.

* In a meeting in Switzerland, the WHO approved a resolution to stimulate research and change the way funding to bring new drugs needed to poor countries. This resolution is considered by many to be a breakthrough because the current production and distribution system only focuses on copyright, making millions of poor people unable to access high-priced essential drugs. Thus in the future, poor countries may hope for the popularity of low-cost drugs to treat diseases such as AIDS, malaria,