Texas Fraud, FDA Warns of Fake Bird Flu Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday issued a warning on the sale of unlicensed, unapproved and often fraudulent products marketed as drugs against either seasonal or avian influenza.
These products, which include fake versions of the antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir), "may endanger the well-being and safety of consumers who take them without providing any therapeutic benefits or protection against any type of influenza," the agency said in a statement.
Officials noted that the agency and U.S. Customs officials have already intercepted products at the border purporting to be generic Tamiflu, but which on closer inspection contained nothing more than vitamin C and "other ineffective substances."
In other cases, the FBI has arrested individuals in Texas and Minnesota for running bogus flu vaccine clinics, where duped patients received little more than saline injections.
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