Tamiflu, Oseltamivir News Archives

The New York Times reports that the CDC is releasing the last of its Tamiflu stockpile.

"More virus, more vaccine and more treatment," is how the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention summed up the current situation with H1N1 influenza.

Oct. 29, 2009 -- The Phoenix-based non-profit Translational Genomics Research Institute announced today that, along with a business collaborator, it will submit a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use of a new test to diagnose the 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus.

U.S. researchers say they've spotted the first case of a Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 flu virus passing between two people -- raising the specter that more widespread resistance will render the antiviral drug less useful in combating the pandemic.

First it was the rush for hand sanitizer. Then it was the quest for the vaccine.

The words "swine flu" had barely been uttered last spring when spammers and malware authors, hoping to take advantage of fears and curiosity about the virus, began devising ways to trick people with clever subject lines and fake web sites.

What parents need to know about the H1N1 virus: warning signs, how to protect children from swine flu, facts about the vaccine and side effects, and more.

An experimental drug cocktail that includes three prescriptions now widely available offers the best hope in developing a single agent to treat drug-resistant H1N1 swine flu, says a virology researcher in the University of Alabama Birmingham Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

Three more swine-flu deaths reported on Monday has raised the national death toll to 35.

Some HIV-infected individuals, especially those with low CD4 cell counts, may experience rapid progression of illness related to 2009 H1N1 influenza A , as well as complications such as secondary bacterial infections including pneumonia.

U.S. regulators have approved emergency use of one experimental new antiviral drug against pandemic flu and researchers say several more in the pipeline may provide better ways to fight the virus.

State health officials are tracking the spread of swine flu through electronic prescription records, developing what they believe is a model that could help doctors more easily identify an outbreak of the illness.

U.S. President Barack Obama has declared the H1N1 virus, formerly known as swine flu, as a national emergency.

Sandi Lee-Gray's son, John Michael Lee, died of the H1N1 flu last week in Houston.

Printer-friendly PDF On this page: The Food and Drug Administration is informing consumers of - and protecting them against - potential harm associated with unapproved products claiming to diagnose, prevent, or otherwise act against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus.

The FDA is advising consumers to use "extreme care" when purchasing online products that claim to diagnose, treat or prevent the H1N1 swine flu virus.

On Oct. 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission issued a joint warning letter to a Web site marketing fraudulent supplements that claim to help prevent the spread of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus.

Approval for the emergency intravenous use of experimental new antiviral drugs for patients critically ill with H1N1 swine flu could come within days, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Wednesday.

More than 100 new cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy got infected with swine flu at a July 4 barbecue and fireworks display but quick isolation measures got it under control within two weeks, researchers reported on Tuesday.

A 19-year-old Coachella Valley resident is the latest to die of the H1N1 Flu in Riverside County, the Riverside Department of Public Health said Tuesday.

On October 15, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission issued a joint warning letter to a Web site marketing fraudulent supplements that claim to help prevent the spread of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus.

We are heading into an unpredictable flu season--perhaps the most unpredictable we have seen in years.

The US Food and Drug Administration warned consumers to "use extreme care" when buying any kinds of drugs over the Internet that claim to prevent, treat, diagnose or cure the H1N1 or Swine flu virus.

Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:22am EDT -Packs of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu are pictured in a pharmacy near Bonn April 28, 2009.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. a ' An ultraviolet light that its sellers promise will "destroy swine flu virus." A dietary supplement claiming to be "more effective than the swine flu shot." Pills, hand sanitizers and air filters galore.

ROCKVILLE,A Md. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday warned consumers to use extreme care when purchasing any products over the Internet that claim to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure the H1N1 influenza virus.

The new H1N1 flu is "strikingly different" from seasonal influenza, killing much younger people than ordinary flu and often killing them very fast, World Health Organization officials said on Friday.

MORE than 230 students at one Eastbourne school have been hit by sickness. The Herald understands around 230 young children are currently off sick from Willingdon Community School and 20 of them have suspected swine flu and are being treated with anti-flu drug Tamiflu.

ASwine flu is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses. Outbreaks of swine flu happen regularly in pigs.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned consumers to use extreme care when purchasing any products over the Internet that claim to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure the H1N1 influenza virus.

The H1N1 so-called 'swine flu' has hit Paris - and has probably been here for a while.

The Delhi government Wednesday authorised two more private hospitals to treat swine flu patients even as 48 new cases of the disease were reported in the capital.

At least 200 children were off sick from an Eastbourne school on one day, including 20 with suspected swine flu.

The first supply of vaccine targeting the swine flu virus is expected in Ohio within hours, and although the initial nasal mist will be given to health-care providers first, the state predicted yesterday there will ultimately be enough for everyone who wants it.

Nina Morganfield spent Wednesday home from school, sick with the telltale signs of swine flu.

With baby Kevin Jr. in tow, Jessica Cruz and Kevin Briscoe check out rings for their wedding today.

Health officials said Friday that 76 U.S. children have died of swine flu, including 19 new reports in the past week - more evidence the virus is unusually dangerous for the young.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced today that more than 4,000 Walmart and Sama TMs Club pharmacies nationwide will address the national shortage of Tamiflu oral suspension by converting the capsule to liquid form.

Infectious disease experts are awaiting an infinitesimal event of momentous importance: the mutation of the novel H1N1 influenza virus.

A month after the Centre permitted the retail sale of Tamiflu - the anti-viral drug used to cure influenza A H1N1 - the Delhi government is yet to allow designated chemists to sell the drug.

Thanks to media attention, communities, work places and schools are on heightened alert for signs of the flu.

Current egg-based manufacturing methodologies for the production of influenza vaccines are slow and have an inherent lag period from variant identification to vial.

The new pandemic of H1N1 swine flu is causing a strong second wave of disease in many Northern Hemisphere countries, according to the World Health Organization.

First Shipments of H1N1 Vaccine Are Released and Oseltamivir Distribution Widens as "Swine Flu" Spreads The first shipments of vaccine against 2009 H1N1 "swine" influenza have been dispatched ahead of schedule and the federal government has begun releasing stockpiles of the anti-influenza drug oseltamivir for children, according to recent news ...

Liberty Drug to Compound Tamiflu Oral Liquid for Children Due to Supply Shortage By Liberty Drug 10/5/2009 Recently, Roche Laboratories, the makers of Tamiflu , announced an expected shortage of their pediatric liquid form of the drug.

A week after the state Department of Health announced that those over the age of 10 only needed one dose of the H1N1 vaccine as opposed to two, local authorities said they felt confident that anyone desiring the treatment could get the vaccination by the end of November.

Parents usually try to steer their children away from ingredients such as sugar and artificial cherry flavoring.

Patricia Wescott says $354 pays an electric bill - or half a month's groceries in her seven-person household.

Provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall and epidemiologist Dr. David Patrick of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control set out the schedule for multiple influenza vaccines in the coming months.

Doctors' offices and emergency rooms across the Dallas area have been inundated this week with sick patients complaining of flu-like symptoms.

Swine flu is now widespread across the entire country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday as federal health officials released Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began taking orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine.

The rollout of vaccine intended to protect against the global pandemic of H1N1 influenza is continuing on or ahead of schedule, a federal health official told reporters Thursday.

Also called 'swine flu,' H1N1 is a contagious respiratory disease that initially only affected pigs, but over time, the virus has mutated, resulting in the H1N1 flu virus.