Vietnam, together with Thailand and Indonesia, was chosen for pilot implementation of an adjusted anti-bird flu therapy using Tamiflu tablets at the "Avian Influenza Clinical Trial for Southeast Asian Countries" seminar in Hanoi on March 16
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Initiated by the World Health Organisation and the US Health Institute, the therapy adjustment calls for doubling the daily dose of Tamiflu for anyone infected with the flu virus, from 150mg to 300 mg/day/person.
The adjustment was made based upon experimental results showing that the double dose is enough to prevent the virus from replicating in animals bodies and that the 150mg-Tamiflu dose barely helps reduce the density of the deadly virus in human bodies.
Five of the 11 medical institutions chosen for the pilot therapy are in
(Source: VOV)
