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TAMIFLU: Deaths include jumping from buildings

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamiflu

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NEUROLOGICAL ADVERSE SIDE EFFECTS OF TAMIFLU: WIKIPEDIA

There are concerns that Tamiflu (oseltamivir) may cause dangerous psychological, neuropsychiatric side effects including self harm in some users. These dangerous side effects occur more commonly in children than in adults.[13] This stems from cases in Japan, where the drug is most heavily prescribed.

In March 2007, Japan's Health Ministry warned that oseltamivir should not be given to those aged 10 to 19.

According to Japan's Health Ministry, between 2004 and March 2007, fifteen people aged 10 to 19 have been injured or killed by jumps or fallen from buildings after taking oseltamivir, and one 17-year-old died after he jumped in front of a truck. A renewed investigation of the Japanese data was completed in April 2007. It found that 128 patients had been reported to behave abnormally after taking oseltamivir since 2001. Forty-three of them were under 10 years old, 57 patients were aged 10 to 19, and 28 patients were aged 20 or over. Eight people, including five teens and three adults, had died from these actions

In November 2006, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the warning label to include the possible side effects of delirium, hallucinations, or other related behavior.[16] This went further than the FDA's previous pronouncement, from a year before, that there was insufficient evidence to claim a causal link between oseltamivir use and the deaths of 12 Japanese children (only two were from neurological problems, although more have died since then).[17] The change to a more cautionary stance was attributed to 103 new reports that the FDA received of delirium, hallucinations and other unusual psychiatric behavior, mostly involving Japanese patients, received between August 29, 2005 and July 6, 2006. This was an increase from the 126 similar cases logged between the drug's approval in 1999 and August 2005.

In April 2007, South Korea issued a safety warning against prescribing tamiflu to teenagers except in special cases.
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5 comments // TAMIFLU: Deaths include jumping from buildings

  • Maeveeo
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      Maeveeo  

    • Didn'y't they give some to BUSH & CREW ?
      Because they thought they had wings when the Started the War , but look what happened they CRASHED BIG TIME ! LANDED ON THEIR FACES ....( now thats ah good thing ) some of the GOP should try some now !

    • 3 years ago
  • dognose
  • thorstein
  • Inofuilwell
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      Inofuilwell  

    • Carolyn,

      I do not want to "make light" of your spot on research but every once in a while, something just strikes me as funny and I can't help but blurt it out even if it doeasn't seem as funny to others as it did to me.

      Please forgive me. I am "punch drunk" from a hard day at work.

      Merck must have first tried Tamiflu in North Korea on Kim Jong Il. If only it would have caused a fatal reaction.

    • 3 years ago
  • CarolynGillis
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