Be Cautious When Purchasing Medicine for Swine Flu over the Internet

by Brittany Durdin on November 12, 2009 · 0 comments

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The FDA encourages everyone to be weary when seeking treatments for swine flu over the internet. Even they were fooled by the fake drugs when they purchased five different products that were labeled as ‘Tamiflu’ or treatments for the 2009 H1N1 flu.

WebMD reports that, “Some of the pills contained only talc and acetaminophen. Some had various amounts of oseltamivir, the active ingredient in Tamiflu. None was the real thing; all are illegal in the U.S.”

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