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Ohiogal

(31,998 posts)
Sun Feb 11, 2018, 12:52 PM Feb 2018

Flu Fighter

A new medicine can rid flu suffers of their symptoms in as little as a day, but the drug will be no good to this year's epidemic because it won't be available to the United States until 2019.

Scientists in Japan said they have developed an experimental pill that kills the influenza virus in 24 hours, three times faster than what it takes Tamiflu to rid the virus in sick patients. Tamiflu is one of the most popular drugs to treat people sick with the flu.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5377309/Experimental-flu-drug-kill-virus-ONE-day.html

***** I wonder how much it will cost and will everyone be able to get it? *****

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Flu Fighter (Original Post) Ohiogal Feb 2018 OP
Tamiflu made Donald Rumsfield a wealthy man kimbutgar Feb 2018 #1
Darn good band. n/t Permanut Feb 2018 #2

kimbutgar

(21,148 posts)
1. Tamiflu made Donald Rumsfield a wealthy man
Sun Feb 11, 2018, 02:39 PM
Feb 2018

I will never use that drug.

I have been drinking a honey citron and ginger tea I brought at Costco. The other night I was starting to feel sick so I drank two cups felt good the next morning.

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