re: relenza good, tamiflu not
In a bird flu pandemic tamiflu may not be as effective as authorities hope says prominent Australian health writer Andrew Cavanagh.
And the latest signs are not good...
In an unsettling development for health authorities tamilflu resistant strains of the bird flu are appearing.
A vietnamese girl diagnosed with bird flu with a tamiflu resistant strain of bird flu.
Fortunately she survived after being treated with RELENZA– another antiviral drug.
In China the bird flu strain H5N1 is showing around 70% resistance to adamantane drugs like Tamiflu.
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