What Doctors Don't Tell YouRe your article on colds & flu (WDDTY vol 12 no 8), I would like to know why you did not mention the two very effective flu drugs now available: the neuraminidase inhibitors, Relenza and Tamiflu.
Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate), the antiviral drug, seems to be the weapon of first choice against the avian flu. The American government has ordered 20 million doses of the drug, while the UK government has placed an order for 14.6 million doses...
Avian flu (H5N1) is predicted to be the next pandemic, claiming up to 7.4 million lives, according to the World Health Organization. The virus was discovered around 50 years ago - but scientists reckon that it will cross over into humans within the...
The most fearsome bogeyman of our troubled dreams is not a serial murderer or Al Qaeda operative. It is a microbe out of control. Nothing strikes more terror in the heart than the idea of an epidemic. Every confident assertion by the medical great...
The US and the nations in the European Union have recently pledged donations of US$1.9 billion to “prevent the development of human pandemic influenza”. However, researchers have found that the drugs in the front-line fight against avian flu, should...
FLU: Time to get those kids vaccinated
