Fake Tamiflu "Out-Spams Viagra On Web"

cin62 writes "The number of Internet scammers offering fake versions of the anti-swine flu drug Tamiflu has surpassed those selling counterfeit Viagra, reports CNN. Since the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, was declared a global pandemic last month, there has been an increase in the number of Web sites and junk emails offering Tamiflu for sale. 'Every Web site that used to sell Viagra is now selling Tamiflu. We are pretty sure that the same people are making the Tamiflu as are making the Viagra,' said Director of Policy for the UK's Royal Pharmaceutical Society." This news fits in nicely with a report Wired ran a couple weeks ago about the hysteria behind H1N1.

Doesn't make much sense

[basementman]

Honestly I'm suprised they are selling Tamiflu. First, the hype from swine flu is over for the time being and I don't see many people losing sleep over it. Second, Tamiflu is the kind of drug most people would just buy from legit sources, unlike facing the possible embarrassment when buying Viagra. And finally the company selling it would be in whole hell of a lot more trouble if someone died as a result of a fake vaccine than if someone just couldn't get hard on.

Re:Tamiflu is a joke

[MichaelSmith]

My wife went to Hong Kong with our son and her parents right at the start of the swine flu panic. She got her sister to write her a prescription for tamiflu and they took it with them on their trip along with face masks which (looking at the pictures they brought back) they wore a lot of the time.

Personally if I had to wear a mask to go to another country I just wouldn't go, but maybe thats just me. The tamiflu was useless as well. My wife's sister, who is a doctor, says when you go to the hospital don't touch the buttons and hand rails in the lift, because sick people use the lift. Doctors take the stairs.