State Wants to Stock Up on Flu Drugs (WOI-TV Des Moines)
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Date: 2006-08-01 00:25:04
State Wants to Stock Up on Flu Drugs (WOI-TV Des Moines)
... f antiviral drugs to be used in the event of an influenza pandemic, Gov. Tom Vilsack said Monday.The Iowa Department of Public Health plans to buy 310,000 courses, or series of doses, of antiviral drugs. That will be matched by another 440,000 from the federal government under asubsidy program. That's enough antiviral, Vilsack said, to treat 25 percent of Iowans. Health experts estimate that's the percentage of population that could fall ill should a wide-scale pandemic occur.``This could be fairly significant and serious, and so it's necessary ...
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