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.
This blog is one of many to be openly supportive of Cipla's stated intention to produce a generic version of a bird flu medicine. What are you going to do about it, Roche, says one blogger Sue Cipla for saving people's lives Protest to the WTO...
