Tamiflu
- noun
- /ˈtæmɪflu/
- Mild gastrointestinal upset is the most common side effect experienced by patients taking Tamiflu.
- Tamiflu antiviral medication
- Tamiflu for eight million
Examples
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Experts recommend keeping a supply of Tamiflu on hand to help treat influenza during the flu season.
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Health officials want to ensure that there is enough Tamiflu for eight million people in the event of a flu outbreak.
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We started to buy because finally the, the, the, the labs in Canada discovered that Tamiflu was very useful to for the virus.
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They say Tamiflu will take a day or two off the symptoms.
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If we let this swine flu spread as normal flu, many places will run out of Tamiflu and, worst, many will be treated as normal flu, i.e., treated with antibiotics to fight secondary infections.
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The lack of deaths due to A(H1N1), the current Swine Flu, is due to prompt prescription of Tamiflu, not because this flu is as mild as the normal flu.
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Stockpiles of Tamiflu and other anti-influenza drugs would also do nothing for those six billion, at least 30 percent of whom—and possibly half—would likely get infected in such a pandemic.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
3
3.7
A medicine that stops viruses from growing in the body
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8.0
A medicine that treats and prevents the flu
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Tamiflu is a brand name that mixes the drug name oseltamivir with flu, the common word for 'influenza'. That's why Tamiflu is easy to remember as a medicine used to treat or prevent the flu.