How much money did the makers of tamiflu make from their lastest scam?

Question:

this years scam being swine flu, bird flu previously and who knows what they will come up with next year?



obviously they made less than the year all governments stockpiled the drug - but theres an expiry date so its repeat business



are you onto them yet?



1000 points to anyone can name the owners of the company that makes tamiflu! (they are also behind the swine and bird flu propaganda)

Answer:

As a chemist I know the neutral fact. U asked "How much money did the makers of tamiflu make from their latest scam?". I may ask how much money the manufacturer of Tamiflu (oseltamivir) spend during their research, development, marketing of Tamiflu?

Pl read the following: A media source notes that Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. (which produces Tamiflu in Japan) gave Yokota's department 10 million yen (about US$105,000) over five years. To determine whether to lift the 2007 ban, a research team from the Japanese Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry studied 10,000 children under the age of 18 who had been diagnosed with influenza since 2006. The study was finalised in April 2009. Taking into account all degrees of abnormal behaviour, including minor behavioural problems such as incoherent speech, the study found that children who took Tamiflu were 54 per cent more likely to exhibit abnormal behaviour than those who did not take the drug. When the team limited its analysis to children who had displayed serious abnormal behaviour that led to injury or death, it found those who had taken Tamiflu were 25 per cent more likely to behave unusually.



Moreover Tamiflu is not a effective drug for swine flu. According to the CDC, Tamiflu (oseltamivir) capsule may not be able to treat Flu type A, the most common influenza virus in 2008. Doctors are being warned to watch out for it so they can attempt to use other treatments if Tamiflu doesn't work.



[Tamiflu (oseltamivir) was developed by US-based Gilead Sciences and is currently marketed by Hoffmann-La Roche (Roche) under the trade name Tamiflu. In Japan, it is marketed by Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., which is more than 50% owned by Roche.]



Tamiflu is not a good drug for h1n1 or swine flu, it has many hazards. Pl look at the following: In November 2006, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the warning label to include the possible side effects of delirium, hallucinations, or other related behavior. This went further than the FDA's previous pronouncement, from a year before, that there was insufficient evidence to claim a causal link between oseltamivir use and the deaths of 12 Japanese children (only two were from neurological problems, although more have died since then). The change to a more cautionary stance was attributed to 103 new reports that the FDA received of delirium, hallucinations and other unusual psychiatric behavior, mostly involving Japanese patients, received between August 29, 2005 and July 6, 2006. This was an increase from the 126 similar cases logged between the drug's approval in 1999 and August 2005.



1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseltamivir...

2. "Tamiflu Approval, Review, and Labeling Information". Drugs@FDA. US FDA. http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cd... Retrieved on 2009-05-08.

3."Roche update on Tamiflu for pandemic influenza preparedness". Roche Media News. 2007-04-26. http://www.roche.com/med-cor-2007-04-26. Retrieved on 2008-02-01. "Tamiflu has now been used in over 50 million influenza patients worldwide"

4. Tomoko Otake (2007-03-20). "Tragedy swirls around Tamiflu". The Japan Times Online. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/f... Retrieved on 2008-02-01. "oseltamivir phosphate ... is enormously popular in Japan, where a total of 35 million people have taken it" Source(s): internet