The decision to stop the standard treatment of flu patients with Tamiflu was due to its side effects, according to Professor Jaap van Dissel of the Leiden University Medical Centre. Giving Tamiflu to 200 otherwise healthy flu patients will only protect 1 patient from complications, but meanwhile 20 to 30 people will experience serious side effects. Comment: This looks like a science based decision rather than the political one made in the U.S.A. Also the Europeans are not so easily stampeded into mass action.
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