UK lacking sufficient flu drug supplies
November 22nd, 2006
A group of British scientists and health specialists warn that the stockpile of antiviral drugs that the UK holds at the moment is worrying, as it might leave the country vulnerable to a global avian influenza pandemic. They say that the government is not fully utilizing the advice it receives. In a report published by the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Department of Health is advised to urgently revisit its decision about stockpiling a single antiviral drug, Tamiflu, as recent discoveries about the highly pathogenic strain of the virus suggest that it is able to develop immunity to the drug.