There’s isn’t nearly enough Tamilflu (which has been linked with convulsions, delirium and Death) to vaccinate America’s population. Notice how the government is asking the private sector to fund vaccinations.
Maggie Fox
New U.S. government pandemic guidelines propose stockpiling millions more doses of the antiviral drug Tamiflu help protect people from infection, and recommend that each household store protective masks. For the first time they propose using the drugs Tamiflu and Relenza to prevent infection, and give guidelines to businesses that may want to buy the drugs in advance to treat or protect employees. They also spell out how many face masks — up to 100 for some commuters — Americans should have on hand.
The U.S. government now has 50 million courses of antiviral drugs, with 10 pills in each course in the case of Tamiflu. States can buy 31 million more courses under a federal contract that subsidizes the cost, for a total of 81 million courses.
The biggest pandemic threat now is from H5N1 avian influenza, which is entrenched in chickens and ducks in much of Asia and has broken out in parts of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Although rare in people, it has killed 241 out of 383 infected in 15 countries since 2003. More
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