Bird Flu Monitor: Tamiflu Archives

Bird Flu Monitor > December 05, 2006

S.Korea bird flu won’t hurt India meal sales: trade (Bird flu)

[Home (aboutflu.net)] S.Korea bird flu won’t hurt India meal sales: trade NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s soymeal exports to major feedstock importer South Korea will not be hit by an outbreak of deadly bird flu in the East Asian country, the head of an Indian trade body said on Friday. Canada tells Roche to include Tamiflu warning OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has asked Swiss drug maker Roche AG to warn consumers of possible health risks linked to its influenza drug Tamiflu, the health department said on Wednesday.

November 28, 2006

Patients suffer mental health problems while taking Tamiflu

[La Leva di Archimede (ENG)] The move comes after the pharmaceutical company wrote to US doctors last week, warning that "people with the flu, particularly children, may be at an increased risk of self-injury and confusion shortly after taking Tamiflu and should be closely monitored for signs of unusual behaviour".

Posted at 12:09 AM

November 17, 2006

Tamiflu Can Cause “Abnormal Behavior”

[Traditional Naturopath :: Dr. Bill Bailey, Ph.D., MH, ND, CNHP, CTN discusses issues in the Natural Health field.] This “Bird Flu” drug now raises suspicions about behavioral effects in children. Bird flu drug Tamiflu may cause “abnormal behavior,” manufacturer...

Posted at 12:08 AM

September 28, 2006

Britain completes stockpile of Tamiflu flu drug

[Enflu] LONDON (Reuters) - The final consignment of Britain's Tamiflu drug stockpile will be delivered this week, putting in place a central plank of contingency plans against a future flu pandemic, the Department of Health said on Wednesday.

Posted at 12:13 AM

July 01, 2006

US to subsidize state purchases of Tamiflu

[Enflu] "Our ultimate goal is to stockpile sufficient quantities of antiviral drugs to treat 25 percent of the U.S. population," U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt said in a release.

Posted at 12:08 AM

December 24, 2005

H5N1 is resisting Tamiflu

[Worldwide Disasters] Oxford University researchers report two cases of patients in Vietnam who died after failing to respond to treatment with the drug Tamiflu.

Posted at 11:57 AM

December 08, 2005

Bird Flu Watch: Human-to-human Transmission?

[The Clog Almanac] There are now reports for a physician in Vietnam that Tamiflu is completely useless against bird flu -- see the Tamiflu story here.

Posted at 09:44 AM

Vietnam bans Tamiflu sales

[Worldwide Disasters] The Vietnam government has banned the sale of the anti-viral Tamiflu to prevent those not affected by the bird flu virus from taking it, thus increasing the likelihood that H5N1 will develop resistance to the drug.

Posted at 09:43 AM

November 22, 2005

Japan Deaths Not Traced To Tamiflu

[The Working Families Party Man] A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said Friday that it saw no evidence Roche AG's Tamiflu caused the deaths of 12 children in Japan, but it urged regulators to continue monitoring the flu medicine's use.

Posted at 02:51 PM

November 19, 2005

Tamiflu Catch-22

[Cloudy Thinking by Ron K. Jeffries] In background documents posted Thursday to the FDA’s Web site the FDA said most of the adverse events linked to Tamiflu, including all of the deaths, occurred in Japan. The FDA said all of the children had been diagnosed with influenza, started therapy with Tamiflu “and died suddenly, several of them in their sleep.”

Posted at 11:30 AM

November 18, 2005

Bad News about Tamiflu

[The Working Families Party Man] In a separate summary posted on the FDA web site, Roche, the manufacturer of Tamiflu, said: "There is no increase in deaths and neuropsychiatric events in patients on Tamiflu versus influenza patients in general." Officials from the FDA and the Swiss drugs giant will present information about the cases to an FDA advisory panel today.

Posted at 10:36 AM

Bird Flu Monitor > December 05, 2006

S.Korea bird flu won’t hurt India meal sales: trade (Bird flu)

November 28, 2006

Patients suffer mental health problems while taking Tamiflu