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Tamiflu linked to deaths of 2 teens |
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from Japan Today
Entered into the database on Saturday, November 12th, 2005 @ 20:53:36 MST |
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Two teenage boys who took the antiviral drug Tamiflu exhibited abnormal behavior
that led to their deaths, with one jumping in front of an oncoming truck last
year and the other falling from the ninth floor of a building earlier this year,
health ministry and other sources said Saturday. The drug in Japan carries a note listing impaired consciousness, abnormal behaviors,
hallucination and other psychological and neurological symptoms as possible
serious side effects. The ministry is considering making a fresh warning about
them, following its decision to increase the stockpile of the drug amid growing
fears about a possible pandemic of a new type of influenza as bird flu deaths
rise across Asia. |
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