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Counterfeit Tamiflu has appeared on the world market
The German Federal Institute for Medicine and Medical Products has warned customers about the emergence of fake Tamiflu bird flu medication on the world market when orde…
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ASEAN establishes a stock of bird flu medicines
ASEAN member states have agreed to choose Singapore as a storage center for oseltamivir as an attempt to prepare for the possibility of bird flu in the region.
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Japan reviewed Tamiflu-related deaths
Japanese health officials will open a new investigation on the link between Tamiflu flu medication and unusual behavior in people who have used the drug after recent dea…
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Detection of Tamiflu resistant virus
Japanese researchers on April 4 said they have found a virus resistant to the Tamiflu drug from type B flu and the virus is capable of spreading from person to person. T…
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Vietnam continues to study the production of anti-avian influenza drugs
Despite the latest information regarding Tamiflu resistance - the most effective drug currently tested in bird flu prevention - from two deaths in Egypt, Vietnamese scie…
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Drugs against bird flu
Thailand's government-run pharmaceutical organization (GPO) has announced that it has produced a very effective and safe anti-viral drug in the fight against bird flu.
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WHO: Tamiflu drug is expired
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), poor Asian countries are facing a dilemma about whether to store Tamiflu when their countries' drug depots are about to…
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Detection of genetically modified H5N1 virus
Scientists have found genetically modified strains of bird flu in two patients in Egypt. They are resistant to drugs commonly used to treat bird flu, World Health Organi…
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Detecting how the bird flu virus kills
The group of international scientists in Ho Chi Minh City has discovered how the H5N1 virus kills people and opens up the prospect of more effective prevention of epidem…
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Tamiflu can cause mental problems
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued another warning for Tamiflu bird flu medication after more than 100 Japanese patients had some mental problems due to th…
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WHO placed drug company Tamiflu on alert
The most recent Indonesian victim died of bird flu, which caused the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday to put drug manufacturer Tamiflu, Roche, on alert: hoardin…
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Do not rely too much on Tamiflu
In the British journal Lancet, experts say there is no evidence that the current top-line anti-influenza drug is completely effective against the H5N1 virus and may be r…
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The H5N1 virus has resisted Tamiflu
At first, a 13-year-old bird flu patient seemed lucky when she had only mild inflammation on one side of her lungs and was treated immediately with Tamiflu. However, aft…
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Roche explained about two deaths related to Tamiflu
Roche said that in the first death, the patient was initially prescribed amantadine (an antiviral drug that treats influenza with side effects on the central nervous sys…
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FDA investigates the side effects of Tamiflu
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun investigating whether there is a link between the use of Tamiflu and the deaths of 12 Japanese children in Japanese M…