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Latest is that one flu variant did not respnd to treatment.....and....was passed on from brother to sister.


"Bird flu virus shows signs of evading newest drug

Reuters - 48 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The feared avian influenza virus is showing signs it can evade the drug considered the first line of defense against bird flu, researchers said on Friday. They found so-called resistant strains in a Vietnamese girl who recovered from a bird flu infection after being treated with Tamiflu. They also found evidence she was directly infected by her brother and not by chickens, a rare case of human-to-human transmission of the virus...."

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/health/bird_flu
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Old 10-14-2005, 01:34 PM
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