UK Swine Flu Cure for Children
Posted on August 01st, 2009 in Swine Flu
The effects of the most comon flu antiviral treatments currently used against swine flu, Tamiflu (produced by Roche) and Relenza (produced by GlaxoSmithKline), have proven to be uneffective in young children under 12.
All it seems to do is delaying the swine flu symptoms by 1 day, so the child can go to school and infect other children.
The swine flu antiviral medication is only effective in 8% of the swine flu cases; if you want to cure a swine flu case of a child 12, you would have to supply the swine flu antiviral to up to 13 children.
In order to target the UK swine flu, all the government is doing is stock piling the unhelpful swine flu drugs for the upcoming flu season. No comment…
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August 19th, 2009
I HAVE A 10YR OLD AND A 13YR BOTH GETTING READY TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL. AS A MOTHER I REALLY WORRY. I’VE SEE ON TV THAT THERES BEEN A NUMBER OF SWINE FLU CASES IN THE UK. IT’S FLU SEASON AND NEITHER OF MY KIDS HAVE HAD THE FLU SHOT. I WANT TO WAIT TILL THEY GET BETTER FEED BACK FROM SOME OF THESE SWINE FLU MEDICATION LIKE TAMIFLU WHICH DOESN’T SEEM TO WORK ON KIDS. MY KIDS DON’T HAVE ANY FLU SYMPTOMS BUT IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I CAN DO TO PROTECT THEM FROM GETTING IT?
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