South Pacific country New Zealand has laws that actually make illegal the importation of Tamiflu a key drug for supressing the avian bird flu spread.
New Zealand's Medsafe principal technical adviser says that "Tamiflu was a prescription medicine and it was illegal for individuals to import prescription medicines."
At the same time the New Zealander public are being refused the ability to purchase the anti-viral drug Tamiflu through pharmacy or chemist, the legal option, until May next year.
How does this support the global fight to prevent avian bird flu h5n1 virus becoming a worldwide pandemic?
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Manawatustandard
tvnz.co.nz
