Chemotherapy for Flu Treatment and Prevention?
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 have the flu already for a couple days . CDC says to hurry in as soon as flu-like symptoms appear. The doctor gives you the mints and tells 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 are not mints, they are a drug– and all drugs have side effects. However it does appear you will be better off taking mints rather than Tamiflu.
What are the Benefits 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 with Tamiflu for flu have about the same symptoms as those taking a placebo (sugar pill)– except 70% more kids were vomiting after Tamiflu than taking nothing (an increase from 9% to 15% is a 70% increase–not 6%) of the kids. 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, CDC recommends that infants as young as two weeks receive Tamiflu and they are 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 2x the nausea, 3x 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 2x more had nausea, 2x more had vomiting, 2x 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 is not to be taken (unless the doctor decides the benefits outweigh the risks). Yet CDC says that pregnant women should rush out and take it at the first signs of flu.
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? There are no statements or data given concerning its effectiveness on 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 effectivess of Tamiflu. Quote,
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.
The two brief videos (one is a BBC headline news broadcast from 2009 when this deception was uncovered and the other is a doctor and nurse produced last month).
Why doesn’t the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC or FDA put a stop to all this? Because some of those in the top echelons of these agencies are in on the fraud and are hiding under the false motto of transparency and ethics in government– just like the vaccination programs.
Tamiflu – Were Norwegians Used in a Gigantic Research Experiment?
In September 2010, during the swine flu scare, Norwegian health authorities permitted the purchase of Tamiflu. The authorities announced that Tamiflu was safe, extended the expiry date and made it temporarily prescription free(1).
The Norwegian authorities had 1.4 million packets left over from the bird flu scare and which were due to expire in February 2010(2).Their actions were concerning because Tamiflu is included in the list for medicines which are under special surveillance for side effects(3).
This is troubling on many levels because, if one looks on the other side of the globe, the Ministry of Health in Vietnam ordered the destruction of a controversial reserve of over 9.7 million capsules of Tamiflu with an estimated value of 14.3 million US dollars(4).
Despite the many listed side effects, thousands of people waited in long queues at the pharmacies hoping to buy a packet of Tamiflu.
Each person filled in a form with two pages giving personal details such as ID-number, sex, address and telephone number.(5) Tamiflu was also bought for children, different doses being sold according to their weight. The form, authorised by a pharmacist, also included advice for pregnant women to take Tamiflu. Tamiflu is not recommended for pregnant women “unless the advantages outweigh the risks”.
The list of side effects is very long and includes nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, diarrhea, behavioural disorders, nightmares, hallucinations, neuropsychiatric, liver and heart problems. Information about side effects of Tamiflu can be accessed in Norwegian from the “Felleskatalog”, paper version or http://www.felleskatalogen.no.
A British research study pointed towards doubt concerning Tamiflu’s effect(6) and a study on thousands of British school children showed that fifty per cent of them suffered from side effects, some serious and irreversible(7).
Dr. Jeffersen, a Cochrane Collaboration reviewer who headed an independent non drug-company conducted review of flu drugs was extremely concerned and felt that Tamiflu was hugely overrated. An article by Christina England in the American Chronicle refers to the side effects being worse than the flu(8).
Are signs pointing to thousands of Norwegians being used in connection with a research experiment? There are several points that must be taken into consideration.
Norway is a well organized society and each person’s I.D. number is registered with a specific doctor. The same identification number is entered in countless registers such as those for birth, medicines, illnesses and death. For example, there is a separate cancer registry.
Secondly, the possibility for compensation for injury from medicines is minimal. If the information is linked to registers it may be worth a goldmine.
The personal information from the many thousand forms is invaluable material for research workers and statisticians, including the authorities and no doubt for Roche, the manufacturer of Tamiflu.
Lastly, Norway is an Eldorado for pharmaceutical companies who are interested in running clinical trials. The possibility of compensation for injury from medicines and vaccines is minimal. There are very few medical experts in each field and there are close connections between health authorities, the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry.
The same few groups of experts in the Norwegian health authority have contact with the pharmaceutical companies, almost sole monopoly for informing the media and advising the population about medicines, deciding which side effects may be reported and registered, and for handling the statistics.
Why did the authorities make a special exception which has not been done before, to makeTamiflu over the counter just for a few weeks? Was it because they wanted to sell the huge stockpile of capsules which had a short expiry date?
Why did the authorities not pay attention to the reports from abroad about the lack of effect and the many cases of serious side effects?
It is extremely doubtful that the thousands of forms full of valuable information will simply be thrown away. Is it possible that Roche, the manufacturer has paid for an extensive study to be carried out on their product?
The thousands of people, including pregnant women and children in Norway who took Tamiflu may probably never know whether or not they participated in what may well be a gigantic research experiment.
(1) http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tv2nyhetene.no%2Finnenriks%2Fhelse%2Ftamiflu-midlertidig-reseptfri-2990019.html
(2) http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abcnyheter.no%2Fnode%2F98920
(3) http://www.legemiddelverket.no/upload/127131/legemidler_under_saerlig_overvaaking_01okt_09.pdf
(4) http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=3960&end=3980&view=yes&id=5293#newspost
(5) http://www.helsedirektoratet.no/vp/multimedia/archive/00255/Tamiflu_-_skjema_ti_255699a.pdf
(6) http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b5164.full
(7) http://health.virginmedia.com/Tamiflu-side-effects-in-children.htm
(8) http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/112627
Just looking at the small numbers of subjects in these studies you can easily see the real studies are done with vaccines are released to the general public. These larger experiments are called post marketing studies.
Thank you for your contribution, Sandy.
Thank you for continuing to oust the lies. Thank you for your due diligence in seeking the truth – and sharing it.
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