Posted on 02/27/2007 3:10:18 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Japan orders probe into Tamiflu after teenager user jumps to his death
02.27.07, 5:47 AM ET
TOKYO (XFN-ASIA) - The government has ordered an investigation after a boy who took Tamiflu made by Swiss firm Roche, jumped to his death from the building he lived in, officials said.
The 14-year-old boy was pronounced dead Tuesday after leaping from the 11th floor of a condominium in the northern Japanese city of Sendai, police said.
'According to our information, the boy woke up in the middle of night after taking the medicine,' a local police spokesman. A short time later the youth jumped off the building.
In another case allegedly linked to Tamiflu, a 14-year-old girl jumped to her death earlier this month from a condominium in central Aichi prefecture.
The health ministry said it would study Tamiflu, but stopped short of immediately linking the drug to the deaths.
'The connection has not been made clear, but if that's the case then we will have to study special measures,' Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa told reporters.
The ministry ordered Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., which imports the drug, to provide information to assist a government investigation into the latest deaths, a health official said.
As of November last year, 54 people have died after taking Tamiflu, 16 of whom were 16 years old or younger, the health ministry said without drawing a direct link.
The cases led to a probe by the US Food and Drug Administration, which concluded last year that there was no evidence linking Tamiflu and the deaths in Japan.
Tamiflu is considered a frontline drug against a potential pandemic of bird flu or other forms of influenza. Japan buys more than 60 pct of the world's Tamiflu as a protective stockpile.
Ping!
Japanese kids don't require any help jumping off buildings ...Can't blame the society ...oh no ...
Ping!
To Japanese, jumping off a roof or into a subway track has been a socially accepted exit strategy, young or old.
Egads! The Japanese government believes that a pharmaceutical drug has the ability to implant ideas, desires, and motivations into the minds of it's citizens.
(Maybe that explains liberals? The drugs they took as children implanted liberalism into their fragile little minds.)
That is too easy and explanation
Japan * ping * (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
A 16 yr. old Central Texas girl was taken to the doctor 2 days after contracting what was believed to the flu. She was given Tamiflu and sent home. 2 days later, after being *carried* into the doctors office by her grandmother, she died within hours. Flu deaths among healthy teenagers is extremely rare in the US.
I think we're "jumping" the gun here by blaming Tamiflu.
(HealthCentersOnline) - Reports of self-injury and delirium associated with the use of Tamiflu has prompted the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to require new warning be inserted in the prescribing and patient information.
Tamiflu, produced by Roche Laboratories, is an antiviral drug used in the treatment of uncomplicated flu symptoms for no more than 2 days, and the prevention of influenza in patients 1 year and older.
There have been reports of self-injury and delirium in patients with influenza who used Tamiflu. Most of these reports are from Japan and occurred primarily among pediatric patients. Because of these reports, the revised patient information includes the following warning:
"People with the flu, particularly children, may be at an increased risk of self-injury and confusion shortly after taking TAMIFLU and should be closely monitored for signs of unusual behavior. A healthcare professional should be contacted immediately if the patient taking TAMIFLU shows any signs of unusual behavior."
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They will also bill you for the cost of a search party if you wander into a forest to freeze.
The family is NOT billed if you drown yourself in the ocean, for some reason.
I'm not making this up.
somehow, we believe you
It is true that some of the methods employed have been used too often and incur a lot of cost afterwards. Wandering into a thick forest purposely must be a real pain to the authorities. I heard that this method is featured as a memorable ending to a novel more often than not.:-)
I guess that the best way is to jump off the roof or take a cyanide pill.
Or they could be Rambo's pumping magazines after magazines of bullets(a likely U.S. equivalent.)
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