Here’s how not to treat the flu

Sometimes you’re not sure what’s hit you.

A fever with nausea and vomiting, maybe some diarrhea…could it be the flu?

Well, if you’ve been to your doctor’s office it might just be a treatment for the flu.

A new one that the FDA just approved at the end of last year.

It’s called Rapivab. And it’s got a whole list of side effects that can give you a case of the worst “flu” ever.

Follow the money

Rapivab is in the same family as another scam drug being pushed by the FDA and CDC, Tamiflu. Only this new one is given right into your vein.

And it can give you the same horrible side effects that Tamiflu can. Things like nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

If you go up a notch on the side-effects ladder, you’ve got some terrible and “serious skin” reactions that include the burning of your skin from the inside out.

Rapivab also shares a side effect with Tamiflu Big Pharma likes to call a “change in behavior.” And that doesn’t mean being grouchy. It’s more like “seeing things that are not really there.”

Something that used to be known as “hallucinating.”

It’s pretty well known by experts around the world by now that Tamiflu doesn’t work. And before Rapivab came along, Tamiflu was one of the biggest drug frauds there was.

But Rapivab has a lot of bucks invested in it, starting with $77 million of our tax dollars that was given to BioCryst, the company that makes the drug.

Back in the 2009 (now known as the “great swine flu hoax” year), the FDA gave BioCryst an “emergency authorization” so doctors would be able to use Rapivab before it was approved.

The government also liberally spent more of our tax dollars buying up thousands and thousands of doses of Rapivab to have at the ready for the flu “epidemic” that never was.

And there was more money to be had. Like another $235 million available in a federal contract to bring it to market.

But despite all that money, three years after the great swine swindle, the ax dropped on Rapivab.

BioCryst suddenly stopped its study on the drug, saying it was “unlikely” it would present it to the FDA for approval.

Of course, the company said that had nothing to do with “unexpected” adverse events. It was because of problems with a “planned interim analysis.”

Yeah, right.

Whatever went on that the company is keeping hidden didn’t stop it from eventually moving ahead and getting it OK’d by the FDA.

And now Rapivab is on the market, ready to be pumped into millions of arms.

But there’s something else you should know about Rapivab.

And this one comes straight from the FDA.

If you take all those risks of terrible skin burns, hallucinations and delirium, it might — if it works at all — “reduce” your flu symptoms a day sooner than if you took a placebo.

I think I’d take my “chances” with some hot tea and honey any day.

And probably get the same results.