Via The Korea Times: Bird Flu Medicine Toxic for Teens. Excerpt: Concerns are rising over side effect of bird flu drug Tamiflu on teenagers. Tamiflu is Swiss-based Hoffman-La Roche’s antiviral for general influenza A and B but is also used to combat bird flu. However, worries have surfaced about the possibility of the medicine causing mental disorders among teenagers. With fear of the H5N1 virus sweeping the nation, the government has doubled the quantity of the drug in storage, as it is the

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South Korea worries about Tamiflu and teens

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