Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Fake Drugs, Including Tamiflu, Thrive on Internet

No big surprise here.

A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Criminals are using the Internet to sell increasing quantities of counterfeit medicines, including fake versions of bird flu drug Tamiflu, a senior U.N. health expert said on Tuesday.

Vitamin and health supplements, so-called "lifestyle medications" like erectile dysfunction drugs, and steroids bought over the Internet were especially likely to be false.

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