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February 1, 2006
Iraqi Doctors Desperately Short Of Bird Flu Medications
Topics: Iraq
According to medical professionals in northern Iraq, there is a serious shortage of medicines to deal with the sudden outbreak of bird flu in the Sulaimaniyah area. In fact, things are so bad there that their pharmacies have just 30 pills (in total) to treat a growing number of patients (30 pills would just about treat four patients).
They urgently need supplies of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza). These are antiviral medications which help stem the virus' ability to cause serious inflammation in the lungs. According to WHO experts, the H5N1 strain spreads through the lungs infecting them at ten times the speed of normal human flu.One would think that with all of our resources and expenditures in Iraq, and with all of the oil revenue available to Iraq, a few bucks could be spent to help stop an epidemic that has the potential to kill more Iraqis this year, should the disease go unchecked, than the murderous insurgents and foreign jihadis, combined.
Posted by Richard at February 1, 2006 6:03 PM
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