Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Panic, Politics and Profit - Tamiflu Kills?
Well this Japanese article is stating exactly that. linked to deaths of 2 teens goes the headline of a Kyodo despatch dated 13.11., and says that two teenage boys who took the antiviral drug Tamiflu exhibited abnormal behavior thatled to their deaths, with one jumping in front of an oncoming truck last year and the other falling from the ninth floor of a building earlier this year, health ministry and other sources said Saturday.

The Japanese newsagency goes on saying that the drug in that country carries a note listing impaired consciousness, abnormal behaviors, hallucination and other psychological and neurological symptoms as possible serious side effects. The ministry of health in Tokyo is therefore considering making a fresh warning about them, following its decision to increase the stockpile of the drug amid growing fears about a possible pandemic of a new type of influenza as deaths rise across Asia.

And if you want to know whT readers of the above information think about panic, politics and profit, read further: there is a very interesting discussion going on in the forum attached to the information.

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