ZURICH (Reuters) - Drug maker Roche halted supplies of its Tamiflu pill to the United States on Thursday to head off hoarding by consumers fearing bird flu, but two suspected human cases in China and France turned out to be false alarms.
Roche Holding AG said it had halted deliveries of Tamiflu to the United States and Canada until the start of the flu season. Media coverage of the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu had driven sales higher, the company said.
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