Friday, February 16, 2018

Tamiflu Causing Increased Deaths from Flu




With the flu season being one of the worst seasons we have seen because of a new strain of flu was discovered, there has been some talk about the vaccines or medications used to fight this virus. On the social media platform, Facebook, Tamiflu was under fire. There was posts of the drug causing more harm than good, that taking Tamiflu was the cause of death this flu season and not the actual virus itself. The insert of the medication states of it reactions to the medication, and leading to death, but according to Snopes, "while Tamiflu does list some scary side effects in its insert, these side effects are both rare and irrelevant to the increased number of influenza death this year". [1 image, 1 link, 1 quotation, 129 words]

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