Today, the stockpile holds more than 300 million treatment courses.
The government said it had ordered 12.4 million treatment courses of Tamiflu, made by Roche, and 1.75 million treatment courses of Relenza, made by GlaxoSmithKline.
The government already has 5.5 million drug treatment courses in its pandemic flu stockpile.
Treatment courses can be repeated twice or thrice a year," the company said in an emailed statement.
On Thursday, the federal government ordered, on an emergency basis, 10,000 treatment courses of peramivir for its national stockpile.
The government has the right to buy up to 30,000 more treatment courses at the same price.
In addition, multidrug-resistant (MDR) M. tuberculosis strains complicate treatment courses.
A median of 4 treatment courses (range, 2-7 courses) was delivered.
One of the currently available products is approved for repeat treatment courses.
Methods: Eighty-five treatment courses were evaluated in 25 pediatric cardiac patients during the stay at intensive care unit.
However, these drugs have major disadvantages, such as long treatment courses, suboptimal efficacy, and/or harmful side effects.
