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Updated: 6:12 PM Sep 13, 2009
Flu Drugs
New drug fights flu as well as Tamiflu does.
Posted: 6:12 PM Sep 13, 2009 |
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A new flu medicine may be on the way.
Researchers say the experimental drug peramivir (purr-AM-uh-veer)
works as well as Tamiflu for clearing up flu symptoms.
It was tested in a large study of people with ordinary seasonal
flu in Asia and is given in a single intravenous dose.
Other new studies provide the strongest evidence yet that early
treatment with flu medicines can save lives, not just shorten
illness by about a day.
In one study of hundreds of people around
the world sickened by deadly bird flu, half of those given Tamiflu
survived, while nearly 90 percent of those not given antiviral
drugs perished.
The studies were reported Sunday at a microbiology conference in
California.
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Posted by: Seriously
on Sep 14, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Question - Our beloved president said in his school address, that if kids get sick, they need to stay home to get better and not spread it. My poor kid was sick last week and would not stay home because of the amount of makeup work he would have to do, and also, he was missing what the teachers were teaching, so he was afraid he would have a hard time with makeup work. Will the schools let these kids miss this work since the president told them not to go to school??
