Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Administration mobilizes to prepare U.S. for possible pandemic - Yahoo! News

Read the entire Yahoo! News/Knight Rider article of October 16, 2005.

"The Senate voted Sept. 29 to provide $3.9 billion for the purchase of more Tamiflu and other items for the Strategic National Stockpile, a federal reserve of medicines and materials that would be distributed during a major health emergency when local supplies are exhausted."

There is also an authorization bill in the Congress, "Attacking Viral Influenza Across Nations Act of 2005". (The House Version and the Senate Version seem ideantical so far.)

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