FDA Says Beware of Fake Swine Flu Vaccines

Boston (DbTechNo) - The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) are urging Americans to be aware of companies claiming that they have vaccines to protect them from swine flu.

Swine flu has taken the world by storm, and is causing panic the world over because it is potentially fatal to people who contract it.

It has killed more than 3thousand people world wide since April, infecting hundreds of thousands more.

Companies are advertising online, vaccines that they tout to be swine flu protectors, when in actual fact they are nothing of the sort.

The FDA recently purchased up to 5 such fake swine flu vaccines, and are warning consumers to stay away from online pharmacies.

“Medicines purchased from web sites operating outside the law put consumers at increased risk due to a higher potential that the products will be counterfeit, impure, contaminated, or have too little or too much of the active ingredient,” FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, MD, said in a news release.

Currently there are only 2 drugs on the market approved for use by the FDA to prevent or treat swine flu; Tamiflu and Relenza.