Indian pharma companies gear up to fight bird flu

Can Cipla do for bird flu what it has already done for Aids?

Sameera Anand

November 15, 2005

Google the words Tamiflu and India on any pharma or life sciences blog and the plans of various Indian pharmaceutical majors (Cipla, Ranbaxy, Nicholas Piramal) to produce a version of Tamiflu will be among the topics being hotly discussed. Some of the more forthright sites such as www.buytamiflu.org, for example, suggest that, "taking star anise to prevent bird flu is not a good idea."

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