The Tamiflu Deception

The Tamiflu Deception

Tamiflu is chemotherapy that’s now given to babies. How
can it be justified when it produces next-to-no benefit, produces and
worsens symptoms it supposedly prevents, and even causes brain swelling
and death? As David points out, its maker, Roche, hid Tamiflu’s adverse
effects.


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by David

Drugs called Tamiflu are chemicals (ethyl
(3R,4R,5S)-5-amino-4-acetamido-3-(pentan-3-yloxy)-cyclohex-1-ene-1-carboxylate)
that are said to prevent flu or treat the flu. This CDC-approved and
recommended-for-all chemotherapy has been shown to cause more vomiting
and diarrhea. Roche, the maker, has refused to release the data from
studies on the effectiveness of Tamiflu to independent researchers for
over three years.

Chemotherapy? Yes, according to the medical definition at
dictionary.com (and others), chemotherapy is the treatment of disease by
means of chemicals that have a specific toxic effect upon the
disease-producing microorganisms or that selectively destroy cancerous
tissue. So technically this is what Tamiflu therapy is.

Prevention? If you
were given a $120 dollar bottle of mints and told it would prevent the
flu, it would seem to work 90% of the time. This is because, on average,
you already have a 90% chance of not getting the flu, give or take. If
you still get the flu, you are told you were infected before starting
the therapy—but the mints have made your flu milder than it would have
been. You may be told a few people will still get the flu during or
after eating the mints because mints are not 100% effective, but if you
don’t take it you have no protection at all.

Treatment? Let’s say
you’ve had the flu already for a couple days. The CDC says to hurry in
as soon as flu-like symptoms appear. The doctor gives you the mints and
says you will eventually feel better and the flu will go away. Sure
enough, you recover. You will start to feel better the next day or
two—as would with folks who just stayed home, rested, and drank plenty
of water.

But Tamiflu pills are not mints, they are a drug—and all drugs have
adverse effects. However, it does appear you would be better off taking
mints rather than Tamiflu.

What are the Adverse Reactions of Tamiflu?


The Tami in Tamiflu is of Japanese origin, and the meaning of Tami is
“let people see benefit”. So, let’s look at the benefits of ethyl
(3R,4R,5S)-5-amino-4-acetamido-3-(pentan-3-yloxy)-cyclohex-1-ene-1-carboxylate.

The extract of the Roche report below shows 1 to 12 year olds being treated for flu with Tamiflu have
about the same symptoms as those taking a placebo (sugar pill)—except
that compared to kids taking nothing, 70% more of the kids taking
Tamiflu were vomiting. (An increase from 9% to 15% is a 70% increase–not
6%.) Five times more children taking Tamiflu for flu prevention had vomiting and four times more kids had nausea than those who took nothing. In other words,Tamiflu makes kids sicker.

Even so, the CDC recommends that infants as young as two weeks
receive Tamiflu. They are also clear that Tamiflu is not a substitute
for flu vaccines and that flu vaccinations should be taken also.



What about the adverse reactions for teenagers and adults? According
to their own clinical trial, the group being treated for flu has nearly
2 times the nausea, 3 times the vomiting and about the same other flu
symptoms as those taking nothing (except for a little less diarrhea).
Those taking Tamiflu for 5 weeks, as recommended for flu prevention, had
2 times more nausea, 2 times more had vomiting, 2times more had stomach
pains, and 50% more had diarrhea than those taking nothing. In other
words, Tamiflu made them sicker.

The
Roche report states no studies have been conducted on the safety of
Tamiflu for pregnant women or fetuses and that it is not to be
taken—unless the doctor decides the benefits outweigh the risks. Yet the
CDC says that pregnant women should rush out and take it at the first
signs of flu.

The CDC explains that onset of mental conditions, brain swelling, and
death may occur after taking Tamiflu, but assures us that the cause has
not been established. We are further assured that most of these cases
have only been seen in Japan.

How effective is Tamiflu in preventing or treating the flu?


No statements or data concerning Tamiflu’s effectiveness are given in
the Roche report. A search of the CDC website did not show anything
regarding how well it works. According to this report on a British Medical Journal article, Roche has refused to hand over clinical trial data on the effectiveness of Tamiflu:

<blockquote>In 2009, the BMJ and researchers at the Nordic Cochrane
Centre asked Roche to make all its Tamiflu data available. At the time,
Cochrane Centre scientists were commissioned by Britain to evaluate flu
drugs. They found no proof that Tamiflu reduced the number of
complications in people with influenza. As of January 2013 the data has
not been released to them.

Roche is also being investigated by
the European Medicines Agency for not properly reporting side effects,
including possible deaths, for 19 drugs including Tamiflu that were used
in about 80,000 patients in the U.S.
</blockquote>



Here are two brief videos. One is a BBC headline news broadcast from
2009 when this deception was uncovered and the other was produced by a
doctor and a nurse last month.







Source:-
http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2013-02-04/the-tamiflu-deception/