ObjectiveResearching the construction and operation of StrategicNationalStockpileofUSA; raising Suggestions on the development of the emergencydrugsystemofChina.
Instead, the government blocked any company that was not Siga Technologies, arguing that the drugstockpile was needed in the next five years and only Siga Technologies was in a position to provide it in that time period.
Ryan, the WHO director of its global alert and response team, said the doses of the drug Tamiflu came from a stockpile that was donated by Swiss health-care giant Roche in 2005 and 2006.