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Indonesia Receives Permission to Produce Tamiflu
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=FEB7DD:3919ACA Indonesia is
second country to get go-ahead to produce anti-flu medicine, along
with Vietnam





Tamiflu medicineIndonesia has received permission from Swiss drug
giant Roche to locally produce Tamiflu, the drug thought to be most
effective in treating bird flu in humans.

Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari made the announcement
Friday, in Jakarta. Indonesia is the second country to get the
go-ahead to produce the anti-flu medicine, along with Vietnam.

Thursday, Indonesian agriculture officials said hundreds of chickens
infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus died in Aceh
province. And in Vietnam, public health officials said a 15-year-old
boy from the northern port city of Haiphong tested positive for the
same H5N1 strain. The findings have not yet been confirmed by the
World Health Organization.

Elsewhere, China also reported a new outbreak of the deadly strain in
poultry in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

More than 60 people have died from bird flu in Asia since 2003.


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