H5N1 News: Europe Guards Against Bogus Internet Tamiflu
A Reuters newswire article by Tom Armitage, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
The little white bottle claims to hold 75 milligrams of oseltamivir phosphate -- the generic name for the flu drug Tamiflu.
But consumers hoping their purchases over the Internet will help them survive a possible bird flu outbreak are being warned that rather than Tamiflu they might simply be buying vitamin C.
U.S. authorities this week seized 51 packages of counterfeit Tamiflu, a treatment for flu made by Roche Holding AG that governments have stockpiled to ward off deadly avian flu.
Counterfeit versions of Tamiflu have also now cropped up in Britain and the Netherlands, the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products, Swissmedic, said on Wednesday.
posted by Fergie @ 12/21/2005 06:50:00 AM
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