The Internet and Tamiflu: Bird flu scare exposes glaring loophole
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Health watchdogs fear demand for Tamiflu will prompt people worried by bird flu to get the coveted drug over the Internet, a practice fraught with risks for the purchaser and the medication itself.
The Web is studded with so-called online pharmacies that promise to ship Tamiflu -- as well as Viagra, painkillers and a whole range of other powerful drugs -- to anywhere in the world, with few and sometimes no questions asked.
Some of these companies are legal and fulfill a useful social role by pushing down prices, especially in the United States where tens of millions of poor people have little or no health insurance.
Yet many operate illegally, using the border-free realm of the Internet to make a fast and potentially dangerous buck.
posted by Fergie @ 10/18/2005 07:32:00 AM
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