Tamiflu makes virus STRONGER ; Relenza "equally effective" - study Aug 2004
Japanese study of Tamiflu : "the most modern anti-flu weapon, has been shown to make the virus mutate into a drug resistant form".
That was word for word out of a newspaper item today, Aug 27 2004.
It says 18% of the children who took Tamiflu had the virus mutate into a drug-resistant form within days.
Will these mutated virus be strong enough to infect another human , To spread? Virus expoerts agreed that if if does, then"that really colours the usefullness of this drug" . Talk about a low-key statement.Indeeed!
The inhaled anti-flu drug Relenza was accidentally rated to be just a useless and dangerous as Tamiflu when industry spokesman said "Relenza is an equally effective drug".
I bet he hadn't heard of the negative study on Tamiflu!!
Here is the best part, but this was not nor will ever be in a newspaper: The work of making a virus into a lethal weapon for humans in case of the need to disable or destroy a population of humans somewhere IS BEING DONE WITH TAMIFLU.
Instead of mutating it in the lab and then making it viable for transmission to the target population , Tamiflu mutations "in the field" will save that step. The mutated virus will take some time to develop strength to spread amongst humans after it has mutated.
That stage is going on now. Very few people have been identified with the mutated form of the virus that Tamiflu caused mutations in.
The mutated virus can be "harvested" for more research in the lab once infected patients start showing up with the mutated Tamiflu-treated virus.
That is where it can also be manufactured into large batches for bio-weapons purposes.
Or they can just let it go to work in the field without further lab work,a nd it is expected that within a year there will be patients getting ill from the mutated form.
Jawg.