Japanese Changing Their Mind On Tamiflu

The Ministry of Health now admits that it did not properly look at all cases...

We reported a few days ago on the Japanese Ministry of Health’s decision that the bird flu drug Tamiflu was not to be given to teenagers following on from reports that the drug could cause strange behaviour and hallucinations.

It now appears that the Health Ministry have decided that maybe they acted too quickly and the Minister of Health admitted that there are ‘suspicions’ about the connection. The Health Minister admitted that in some cases the people who had taken the bird flu drug Tamiflu had had accidents which were nothing to do with the Tamiflu drug. The Ministry of Health therefore will be reviewing their ban on the use of Tamiflu in teenagers and in the words of the Minister ‘will have another look’.

Originally the Ministry of Health in Japan had said that four adults and eleven teenagers had hurt themselves seriously following abnormal and strange behaviour after taking the Tamiflu drug. The Ministry of Health now admits that it did not properly look at all of the cases of the strange behaviour in detail but relied on insufficient information about each case.

Ukmedix News is pleased that the Japanese health authorities are reconsidering the Tamiflu ban as from the huge amount of people using it worldwide there have been extremely few adverse reactions and it is deemed to be a safe and effective drug by the FDA and the EMEA as well as most of the world’s health authorities.

The pharmaceutical company Roche will also be pleased to know that the Japanese health authorities are reconsidering their ban on the Tamiflu drug as it could affect sales of the bird flu remedy drastically. The World Health Organisation has yet to comment on the Japanese stance with regard to Tamiflu and it still considers Tamiflu to be the most effective drug remedy in the case of a worldwide pandemic of bird flu.