New York buying 1 million Tamiflu treatments

By Associated Press
July 8, 2006

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York is spending about $23 million to stockpile antiviral medications in the event of a pandemic flu outbreak in the coming years.

Rob Kenny, a spokesman for the New York State Health Department said the state plans to buy more than 1 million Tamiflu treatment courses and another 227,000 courses of Relenza. New York, a state of more than 19 million people, has 60,000 Tamiflu treatment courses on hand already.

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