Written by Stuart Stevens | Monday, 30 July 2007 | There are 0 comments
Unlike many prescription drugs the influenza medication Tamiflu is extremely hard and complicated to manufacture. In all there are about ten complex steps that have to be done in order to get from the base materials to the final product. One of the steps involves the use of azide chemistry which is notoriously hard to master. Not only is the manufacture of Tamiflu complicated but also time consuming so that it takes at least six months from the time when all the raw ingredients are ready to the final production of the Tamiflu pill.

Some drugs like Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drugs are much easier to manufacture and that is why so there are many millions of these fakes on the market. A lot of this fake Viagra is substandard but at least some of it has a little bit of the sildenafil active ingredient in it. When a fake Tamiflu pill is made it never has the active ingredient oseltamivir in it because the investment and infrastructure required to produce it is just too costly, and therefore criminal organisations who make fake Tamiflu just produce dud pills that do absolutely nothing.
Of all the internet scams that exist today the selling of counterfeit Tamiflu must be one of the most morally reprehensible things to do. There is no question that there are hundreds of individuals in the world today who would be alive if they had not fallen for a fake Tamiflu scam. What is especially worrying is that in China and India the production of fake Tamiflu continues and if a worldwide bird flu pandemic were to break out it is likely that the people who make the fake Tamiflu will be responsible for thousands and thousands of deaths.
When you buy Tamiflu make sure you are buying from the most trusted sources. At Ukmedix a new system for checking the validity of your order can be utilised so that you even know from what pharmacy the Tamiflu comes from. The system is called a Pharmacheck and gives Ukmedix customers complete peace of mind.
