A flu drug that saves lives could become the decade's first new flu medicine. The drug, peramivir, when intravenously administered removes flu symptoms 5 times faster than Tamiflu pills. Tamiflu pills aid the survival prospects of flu patients, but peramivir IV treatment is preferable when patients cannot swallow pills.
source: Tests show two flu drugs shorten illness, save lives
September 14, 2009 print edition of Star Tribune
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