us raise concern over tamiflu resistance

US are defeintely worried by Tamiflu resistance (link below). The main point of the article seems to be that if the swine flu has 'sex' with the Tamiflu-resistant seasonal flu then a Tamiflu-resistant swine flu could be born. (Relenza does not suffer from resistance.)

This concern should heavily influence the US government's $1.5-2 billion budget for pandemic planning in regards to the stockpiling of antivirals - i.e. Relenza must be considered much preferred to Tamiflu.

Commercially, this also is highly beneficial to the LANI drug - phase 3 results released in the coming weeks.

http://in.reuters.com/article/health/idINTRE54I6O820090519?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0