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Bird Flu May Be Developing Drug Resistance

Posted by Zonk on

Pingular writes "The virus currently causing bird flu in humans may be developing resistance to the only drug that can so far combat the infection. From the article: 'A previous paper in the journal Nature described a single case of drug resistance in a patient being treated for avian flu. However, in this case the patient had been given low doses of Tamiflu before becoming infected, as a family member had been stricken. Lead researcher Dr Jeremy Farrar described the latest findings as "very worrying" - but said they were not surprising.'"

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  1. when i'll be happy... by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    im not a big fan of the human race... too many idiots. im not going to be happy until 92% of the worlds population is wiped out. what? i want to keep an extra 3% of idiots for hard labor. :)

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