{"id":582,"date":"2014-04-11T14:42:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=582"},"modified":"2014-04-14T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:32:10","slug":"tamiflu-could-save-many-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/tamiflu-could-save-many-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamiflu could save many lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/04\/JSR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-583\" alt=\"JSR\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/04\/JSR-300x248.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/04\/JSR-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/04\/JSR-362x300.jpg 362w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2014\/04\/JSR.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Much has been made in recent days about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cochrane.org\/\">Cochrane Review<\/a>, and subsequent media coverage,\u00a0concerning anti-influenza drugs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/profiles\/staff\/rossman.html\">Dr. Jeremy Rossman<\/a>, Lecturer in Virology in the School of Biosciences, says that while\u00a0the review questions\u00a0the economic benefits of\u00a0stockpiling Tamiflu, the drug could save many lives in the event of another serious influenza pandemic. Despite the apparently modest alleviation of influenza symptoms in adults, Dr. Rossman contends that this may still be of substantial benefit to public health in the case of a pandemic with highly-pathogenic influenza strains.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see Dr. Rossman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/comment\/stories\/tamiflu-rossman-biosciences\/2014\">full commentary.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/tamiflu-could-save-many-lives\/&amp;t=Tamiflu could save many lives' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Tamiflu could save many lives%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/tamiflu-could-save-many-lives\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/tamiflu-could-save-many-lives\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/tamiflu-could-save-many-lives\/&amp;title=Tamiflu could save many lives' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/tamiflu-could-save-many-lives\/&amp;title=Tamiflu could save many lives' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been made in recent days about the Cochrane Review, and subsequent media coverage,\u00a0concerning anti-influenza drugs. Dr. Jeremy Rossman, Lecturer in Virology in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2014\/04\/11\/tamiflu-could-save-many-lives\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[70,27305,27306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}