[Hawk's WebJournal] The Source The Article in Big Medicine Big Medicine Egypt: Avian influenza update: oseltamivir resistance -- Viruses with a genetic mutation, linked in laboratory testing to moderately reduced susceptibility to Oseltamivir, have been discovered in two persons previously reported with H5N1 infections in Egypt. Both patients had been on treatment with oseltamivir for two days before the clinical samples that yielded the viruses were taken.
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[Ip-watch.org] Intellectual Property Watch » Bird Flu Pandemic Priority For WHO ...: At the board meeting, Margaret Chan, assistant director general of the communicable diseases cluster at the WHO, welcomed the “generous donation of Roche” of Tamiflu to the WHO. Earlier this month, Roche announced that it would donate a further two million treatment courses of Tamiflu to the WHO, taking the total WHO stock up to 5.125 million treatment courses, according to Roche.
[Superstrain.blogspot.com] SuperStrain Blog-Source: drug resistance: "Unfortunately, it is unknown if Tamiflu will be effective when pandemic flu emerges and how long it will be effective for. Anti-viral resistance is becoming as big a problem as antibiotic resistance." Sir William stressed, however, that it was better to have stocks of antiviral drugs that helped patients fight non-resistant flu strains than no drugs at all to protect the population.
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