U.S. Giving Tamiflu Treatment to WHO
Posted on: Friday, 3 July 2009, 11:55 CDT
On Thursday, the U.S. government said it is giving 420,000 treatment courses of Tamiflu to the Pan-American Health Organization in an attempt to fight the swine flu in Latin American and the Caribbean.The U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) said that treating and preventing the H1N1 virus would help secure the region, as well as the U.S.
HHS bought 50 million courses of antiviral drugs, including Roche AG's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza.
The department released 11 million treatment courses in April, which was right after the first swine flu virus was detected. Since then it has bought 13 million more .
According to estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the new virus, which was declared a pandemic last month by the WHO, now infects over a million people.
There have been 170 confirmed deaths in the U.S. and over 300 throughout the world.
On Thursday, Kathleen Sebelius, HHS Secretary, announced the donation of the drugs at a meeting of government health ministers in Cancun, Mexico. PAHO is the American branch for the World Health Organization (WHO).
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