Feb. 23 (UPI) — Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on Friday approved a new drug the company claims will kill the flu virus in one day.
Shionogi received fast-track approval to begin immediately selling Xofluza in Japan, but the pill might not be available before May because a price hasn’t been set, the company told The Wall Street Journal.
Japanese regulators considered data from a first late-stage trial in making their decision. Xofluza, which was developed in 2015, is the first drug to be approved through the fast-track review system, the Nikkei Asian Review reported.
Shionogi and Switzerland’s Roche, which has the rights to sell the drug outside Japan, including the United States, are in final stages of a second late-stage trial. They plan to file for U.S. approval after the second trial.
Shionogi, based in Osaka, is a 140-year-old company that has created blockbuster drugs used to treat HIV and high cholesterol. keep reading
ANNNNND, here come the ZOMBIES!
Scr_north beat me to the Zombies reference.
Dibs on being the first to lead a ragtag band of plucky survivors across the pandemic Apocalypse in search of a Cure, or something.
Doc? 10K? Addie! Saddle up, let’s go.
Also, Japan. May the Fukushima-awakening-Godzilla memes begin.
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Just minor side affects like projectile diarrhea, dizziness , and puking for up to two weeks.
But hey! The cold is dead.
but the pill might not be available before May because a price hasn’t been set
My guess they will charge Americans 5 times as much vs Japan and Europe.
It’ll never top Zyklon-B’s record.
I made it through 3 horrendous flu attacks in the course of my 72 years, and didn’t die.
One time I yielded to prescrioption drugs because I was 8 months pregnant with our first child. Fortunately the drugs which the docs tried wouldn’t stay down. So they tried with drugs meant to be used on my other end. Fortunately, they came out immediately and floated their merry way.
I’ve never had a flu shot and refuse to ever get one as long as I’m still in charge of my own body.
One thing that irritates me is how people have been indoctrinated to think you have to get rid of a cough. Coughing protects your lungs from developing pneumonia. Correct or not, that’s what I believe.
NO MORE FRU!
What else in the body does it kill.
If it’s anything like Tamiflu, they can ram it up their *insert crude body pat name here*
Next, John Belushi
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“SAMURAI DOCTOR”