Customs intercepts counterfeit Tamiflu

benburch

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Mon Dec-19-05 09:06 AM
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Customs intercepts counterfeit Tamiflu

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002691569_ndig19.html

Customs intercepts counterfeit Tamiflu

San Francisco

Customs agents have intercepted more than 50 shipments of counterfeit Tamiflu, the antiviral drug being stockpiled in anticipation of a bird-flu pandemic, marking the first such seizures in the United States, authorities said Sunday.

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Maddy McCall

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Mon Dec-19-05 09:17 AM
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1. Yep. All those people buying it online...they just THINK they have...

been stockpiling Tamiflu.

Serves the hoarders right.

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electron_blue

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Mon Dec-19-05 12:12 PM
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2. Well, the tipoff would be that it's called "generic tamiflu"

No such thing as "generic" tamiflu (yet).

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SidDithers

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Mon Dec-19-05 04:15 PM
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3. Also, watch out for TamiFloo...

and Tami-Achoo... :evilgrin:

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meganmonkey

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Mon Dec-19-05 04:23 PM
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4. And Tamiflubecue - KFCs new dipping sauce (PIC):

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stickdog

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Tue Dec-20-05 04:45 AM
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5. The real stuff is just as useless.

But this gives Rumsfeld's old drug manufacturing corporation a built in excuse whenever anyone supposedly treated with Tamiflu kicks it.

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rfkrfk

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Tue Dec-20-05 05:04 AM
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6. wrong...I give Tamiflu to my Norwegian Blue parrot

no flu

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stickdog

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Tue Dec-20-05 09:48 AM
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7. I think you may have stumbled onto the key to developing resistance.

But no sense beating a dead parrot.

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