HANOI (Reuters) - Swiss drug maker Roche has agreed to give bird flu-hit Vietnam the right to make the anti-viral medicine Tamiflu and production could start early next year, state radio said on Wednesday.
Vietnam has 57 plants able to produce the drug, thought likely to be the best available should the H5N1 bird flu virus become capable of passing between people easily, and Roche would pick its local partner, the Voice of Vietnam added.
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