The Macao government has stocked 1.3 million Tamiflu pills that could treat 110,000 patients in the case of an outbreak of bird flu, local media reported Friday.

The Macao Post Daily quoted sources from the government-run Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) as saying that the region's stock of flu vaccines is nearing the exhaustion amid the pandemic fear.

The CDCP noted that the common flu vaccines are not to cure bird flu.

The government is to restock the flu vaccines soon, according to the newspaper.

(Xinhua News Agency November 4, 2005)