The New Zealand Government says it has a stockpile of the anti-flu drug Tamiflu to cover 21 per cent of the population should there be a bird flu pandemic.
I don't know to be happy or worried!
Tamiflu linked to deaths of 12 children ( http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10355841 )
Yesterday in a report posted online, the US Food and Drug Administration said that 12 children had died in Japan from a range of causes including heart attack, suicide, pneumonia, and acute pancreatitis. Four had suffered a "sudden death" which was" an unusual phenomenon in otherwise healthy children". All had taken Tamiflu.
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some strains of avian influenze seem to have developed immunity to tamiflu as well now so it might be of no use
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