NC Reports Tamiflu Resistant Cases of Swine Flu
November 20, 2009 by Homeland Security NTARC News
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Not a good sign in the fight against Swine Flu. Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that’s resistant to the drug Tamiflu. It’s the first cluster of that many cases seen in the U.S.
Health officials said Friday the four cases were reported at Duke University Medical Center in Durham over the past six weeks.
Tamiflu is one of two medicines that help against swine flu. Health officials have been closely watching for signs that the virus is mutating, making the drugs ineffective.
About 52 resistant cases have been reported in the world since April, including 15 in the U.S. so far. Officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say almost all the U.S. cases have been isolated.
via IndyStar.com | AP National | The Indianapolis Star.
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this flu is becoming a big scare story if the news would stop hyping up every story they can scrape up people would become calmer and not so worried that the first runny nose they get that dont clear up overnight is swine flu,also jamming hospitals and drs offices for antibiotics that are not taken or used correctly will cause stronger variants of any virus nevermind the swine flu, we got to let our immune systems fight these yearly flus so we dont let these viruses get the chance to mutate and not respond to the very little antibiotics that do work.
This, coupled with the more dangerous mutation showing up in N. Europe may be harbingers of a bad Winter and beyond.