Mar 2, 2009 03:15 PM in Health & Medicine | 2 comments
Widespread Tamiflu resistance sparks new look at pandemic flu drug stockpile
By Jordan Lite
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We've known since January that most of the flu circulating this season is resistant to Tamiflu, an antiviral drug typically used against the infection. What remained a mystery was whether the resistant flu strain made people sicker than forms that respond to the treatment and why the resistant strain surged this year, a worry for public health officials who stockpiled Tamiflu in the event of a flu pandemic stoked by avian influenza.
A study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that
tamiflu resistance
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