Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

After some initial swine flu terror (All the victims were between 25 and 50?), I got curious*. There are two drugs currently being prescribed to treat the disease, oseltamivir (branded Tamiflu from Hoffman-La Roche) and Zanamivir (branded Relenza), so I did a quick search on Google Trends.

The full country-by-country results are interesting, too–Mexico is the only country where oseltamivir searches even come close to Tamiflu (In the US, Tamiflu outperforms oseltamivir 64:1). It might be a good time to invest in Hoffman-La Roche. As long as you don’t die.

*Okay, I won’t lie. I’m still terrified of this stuff. I’ll probably have a panic attack on the metro or something.

Tagged: aaaaaaah, health, nerdiness, news, wtf o'clock

One Response to “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.”

1. Scott Says:
   April 27th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

   Cytokine storm: a while back i learned about these scary as balls things while researching flu pandemics for a paper.

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