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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Japanese Suicide Deaths Raise Safety Fears About Tamiflu

Some of the side-effects of Tamiflu are impaired consciousness, abnormal behaviour, and hallucinations. To me, this sounds like cause for concern. Yet strangely, I have not heard anything about this anywhere in the mainstream media, not even on the CBC which is usually quite good about reporting news that other sources shy away from.....

" European medicines regulators have ordered a safety check on Tamiflu after reports that two teenage boys died in Japan in apparent suicides after taking the anti-flu drug.

The deaths have raised safety fears about the only treatment against a threatened pandemic of avian flu. The deaths are not linked and occurred a year apart.

The Japanese health ministry issued a warning in June 2004 about psychological and neurological disorders linked with Tamiflu, with an instruction that doctors should be alerted - but no similar warning was issued in Europe and the UK. " .... Read entire article from The Independent UK

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