FDA unleashes generic version of this dangerous dud drug
If there ever was a generic drug nobody needed, this is it.
And I mean nobody.
Last week the FDA OK’d the first generic version of Tamiflu. It’s that dud antiviral flu med that can cause such horrible side effects it makes the actual flu sound like a walk in the park.
Tamiflu is a scam almost twenty years in the making.
And it’s coming around again, only this time cheaper and probably more prescribed than ever before.
Tamiflu could easily be called the “Teflon drug.” Because no matter how much damaging evidence comes out showing that it just doesn’t work, it keeps right on selling.
Pretty much the only thing effective about it is the price. At over $100 for the full course of treatment, that effectively kept it out of a lot of people’s hands!
But now, even that price barrier will bite the dust with a generic version having been approved.
And the craziest part about Tamiflu is that you didn’t have to actually take it to pay for it.
That’s because the feds spent over $1.3 billion of our tax dollars stockpiling 65 million doses of the drug. What’s now being called a “costly mistake.”
The Tamiflu saga, however, is a lot more than just money out our pockets and into drugmaker Roche’s bank account. It’s a story of a dangerous med with side effects that Big Pharma and regulators simply ignored. And are still ignoring to this day.
Because Tamiflu continues to be advertised and prescribed like hotcakes.
Two years ago researchers at the highly respected Cochrane Review finally got a look at the data on Tamiflu that had been essentially locked up for decades. And what they found led the head investigator to say at the time there was “no credible way” it could prevent a pandemic — the reason behind that billion-dollar government purchase.
The Cochrane reviewers also said that “the idea of a drug is that the benefits should exceed the harm.”
And if you’re wondering about the benefits of Tamiflu, that would be to reduce flu symptoms by half a day. That’s right, all those ads you saw last flu season — and no doubt will be seeing again soon — are to maybe get some flu-symptom relief of around 12 hours.
And in exchange, here’s what you or your child will be risking:
- Nausea, vomiting, headache and pain (sort of sounds a lot like the flu, doesn’t it?),
- “Serious skin” reactions that can include skin blistering and peeling, and
- “Delirium,” “hallucinations” and “abnormal behavior, in some cases resulting in fatal outcomes” (in other words, death).
Those hidden studies also found that Tamiflu does not reduce the chance of flu complications. It especially does nothing for elderly and ill patients, the ones who are at even greater risk.
And Tamiflu is FDA approved for babies as young as two weeks! I mean we’re talking about practically newborns being given a drug that has never been proven to work but can cause “abnormal behavior” and death.
It’s absolutely unbelievable.
The government handout to Roche may be over, but the company still made over $18 billion since the drug first came out in 1999. And sales during the 2013 flu season jumped by over 80 percent from previous years.
Researchers have been crying foul over Tamiflu for years now. One called its success “a cocktail of pandemic panic, publicity propaganda and scientific misconduct.”
And when “flu season” arrives, it will once again mean happy hour across the land for the drug industry serving it.
Sources:
“Generic version of Tamiflu approved” HealthDay, August 8, 2016, newsmax.com
