[AVN] Bird flu vaccine linked to 18 teenage suicides in Japan

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This is mistitled - Tamiflu is not a vaccine but an antiviral drug

Sheri

http://www.smh.com.au/news/health/bird-flu-vaccine-linked-to-18-teenage-suic

ides-in-japan/2007/02/28/1172338708146.html

Bird flu vaccine linked to 18 teenage suicides in Japan

Norrie in Tokyo

March 1, 2007

JAPANESE health authorities are investigating a flu medicine that is also

available in Australia after a teenager jumped 11 storeys to his death after

taking the drug. It was the 18th juvenile fatality linked to Tamiflu in 17

months.

The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has asked the Japanese importer

of Tamiflu, an anti-viral drug regarded as the most important shield against

bird flu in humans, to collect information about the conditions of patients

who take the drug.

The 14-year-old boy's death follows a similar case two weeks ago, when a

girl also 14, died after jumping from an apartment building at Gamagori, in

central Japan.

It also comes after a warning by the US Food and Drug Administration late

last year about the dangers of giving children Tamiflu. The drug is being

stockpiled in Australia as the first line of defence against bird flu. In

Australia, as in Japan, it is only available by prescription.

The Swiss manufacturer, Roche, says the rate of deaths and psychiatric

disturbances among people taking its medication is no higher than for flu

sufferers generally. It denies there is evidence of a direct correlation

between the drug and the fatalities.

In the latest case the teenager, from Sendai in Japan's north-east, had been

prescribed a five-day course of Tamiflu by his doctor. After taking two

tablets on Monday, he woke during the evening and told his mother he was

going to the bathroom, but went out the front door instead.

His mother followed him and called out when she saw him climbing a 1.3-metre

handrail. Police said he did not respond, throwing himself off to the

parking lot below. There was nothing to suggest the death was a suicide.

Hakuo Yanagisawa, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, urged the

public to stay calm. " There needs to be clear evidence, " he said.

Drug companies reported that 54 people using Tamiflu died in Japan before

November, the ministry said.

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

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