Bird Flu May Be Developing Drug Resistance

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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spelling nazi

[SpectralDesign]

fyi - foobarred doesn't really mean anything.... fubar is a military term for f-ed up beyond all recognition, so really, you could say, "After that, you are fubar."

Re:spelling nazi

[BushCheney08]

Speaking of, I've always wondered why programmers use FOO and BAR for examples. I mean, it seems like a phrase that doesn't instill a whole lot of confidence in the exampler's abilities. : p

Re:Christmas Gift

[B5Fan]

"That's what you get when you wage war on Christmas, America."

America invented Christmas, I think that gives them the right to attack it.

Fact: (I'm fairly sure, but feel free to correct me)
Christmas as a gift-giving tradition was created as a marketting ploy roughly around 1900. "Santa" was derived from the Danish equivilent who wore green, and he wears a red suit because Coka Cola sponsered his hat and so the rest of the suit was made red too.