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February 13, 2010It just doesnt seem right to me, said Harry Oken, 51, an internist in Columbia. Japans experience with Tamiflu is noteworthy because it is the only country where Roche has had marked success in selling it as a treatment for ordinary influenza. A year later, a 14-year-old junior high student, also taking the drug for influenza, jumped to his death from the 75mg tamiflu ninth floor of his condominium. In fact, 75mg tamiflu fewer than 30 per cent of patients take the full course of a prescribed tranquilliser; fewer still return for a repeat prescription. How many people those stockpiles could treat is a big question mark, however. If there really was an avian flu epidemic, people who dont need it have it, and people who really need it cant get it. In addition, 75mg tamiflu the drugs soon lose their ability to reduce anxiety, and may even make it worse, because of tolerance and withdrawal effects. Mutations in influenza A resulting in decreased 75mg tamiflu susceptibility were H274Y in neuraminidase N1 and E119V and R292K in neuraminidase NInsufficient information is available to fully characterize the risk of emergence of TAMIFLU resistance in clinical use. Terence J Hurley, a spokesman for Roche, the giant Swiss pharmaceutical house that makes Tamiflu, confirmed that prescriptions are up considerably compared to last year at this time. Such people take the drugs as a means of 75mg tamiflu protection against stress. The finding is important because of the risk that Tamiflu, if overprescribed, could end up in the wild in concentrations high enough to let H5N1 adapt to this key drug, the 75mg tamiflu authors say. For more than a year, demand for the drug, known generically as oseltamivir, has been rising as more than three dozen 75mg tamiflu countries began to lay in millions of doses for national stockpiles. There are few people who do not respond to their psychological needs with suitable doses of drugs. Swedish scientists say that Tamiflu – the frontline weapon in any bird-flu pandemic – cannot be broken down by sewage systems and this could help the virus mutate dangerously into 75mg tamiflu a drug-resistant strain. The company said this week it is in discussions with four makers of generic drugs over possibly letting them 75mg tamiflu produce Tamiflu, too. By then it might be too late.
