Wisconsin notified the federal government today it wants enough
anti-flu medicine to treat nearly 1.4 million people in the event of
an outbreak. And the state is asking for more help paying for the
stockpile.
It would be enough medicine to treat roughly one-fourth of the state's
people. It's the amount recommended by the Centers for Disease Control
and the World Health Organization.
Each person would have enough for a five-day treatment or a ten-day
preventive supply. The medications, including Tamiflu and Relenza, can
reduce the symptoms associated with influenza.
For Wisconsin, the federal government will pay for and set aside about
816,000 courses of treatment.
State health officer Sheri Johnson, in a letter dated today, asked the
federal government to pay the full cost of the drugs, estimated at $8
million.
The federal government is stockpiling enough medications to treat 44
million people, or about 15 percent of each state's population.
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