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- 'Bush presses vaccine makers to prepare for bird flu (USA Today)
President Bush summoned vaccine manufacturers to a White House meeting Friday, hoping to boost the industry amid increasing fears of a worldwide outbreak of bird flu. It's the latest in a flurry of preparations for a possible pandemic.
'Bird flu drugs are taking on second lives (International Herald Tribune)
Growing fears of a global bird flu pandemic are revitalizing drugs like peramivir, a flu treatment that BioCryst Pharmaceuticals gave up on three years ago.
'Web sales of bird flu drug spark counterfeit fears (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Swiss drug maker Roche urged consumers on Friday not to buy its flu drug Tamiflu over the Internet to avoid the risk of purchasing potentially counterfeit pills as they build stockpiles in case of a bird flu pandemic.
'Bush Presses Vaccine Makers on Bird Flu (Washington Post)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush summoned vaccine manufacturers to a White House meeting Friday, hoping to personally boost the rickety industry amid increasing fears of a worldwide outbreak of bird flu. It's the latest in a flurry of preparations for a possible pandemic after criticism of the...
'Bush Presses Vaccine Makers on Bird Flu (ABC News)
President Bush Presses Vaccine Makers to Prepare for Possible Bird Flu Pandemic
'Despite WHO warning, India sees no cause for alarm on bird flu (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The Indian government is taking precautions to check the spread of bird flu and there "should be no cause for alarm," the health ministry said after a UN warning of a pandemic.
'Honesty the key, US says at start of bird flu conference (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Delegates from 80 countries met to mull the potentially catastrophic toll of a human pandemic spawned by bird flu, as US officials confided that the only hope of containing an outbreak relied on transparency from sometimes secretive Asian governments.
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