Drug Maker Roche Building U.S. Plant
An AP newswire article by Bradley S. Klapper, via SFGate.com, reports that:
Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding AG said Tuesday it is building a new plant in the United States to boost production of its Tamiflu drug amid fears about bird flu, and is ready to seek help from other companies to meet surging demand.
Orders for the antiviral drug have soared as health experts have been pinning their hopes on Tamiflu in case the bird flu that has spread from Asia to southeast Europe mutates so that it could pass easily between people. While there is no human vaccine for the spreading strain of bird flu, scientists believe Tamiflu may help humans fight a mutated virus.
posted by Fergie @ 10/18/2005 07:40:00 AM
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