Half of Tamiflu prescriptions went unused during 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic, UK sewage study

(Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) A new study concludes that approximately half of the prescriptions of Tamiflu during the 2009-10 influenza pandemic went unused in England. The unused medication represents approximately 600,000 courses of Tamiflu at a cost of around £7.8 million to the UK taxpayer. The finding, published online in the open access scientific journal PLOS ONE, comes from the first study of its kind to use sewage water to estimate drug compliance rates.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news