Tamiflu, Oseltamivir News

Via the Japan Times : Osaka fails to report swine flu mutation . Excerpt: An Osaka health official found a genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu on June 18 - nearly two weeks before the "first" finding was reported in Denmark - but failed to disclose it, the health ministry said Thursday.

All cases of Tamiflu resistance are not created equal. So while the first three instances of swine flu infection with Tamiflu-resistant viruses were reported in the past week, it was Number 3, not Number 1 that put influenza experts on edge.

Friday, July 03, 2009 What is the link between the Swine Flu and seizures? What is the swine flu? The swine influenza A virus that has infected humans in the U.S. and Mexico is a novel influenza A virus that has not previously been identified in North America.

The U.S. government said on Thursday it will give 420,000 treatment courses of Tamiflu to the Pan-American Health Organization to help fight the new H1N1 influenza virus in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Thailand and Brunei each reported a death related to flu A/H1N1 on Friday, and at least seven countries reported more than 400 infections in the Asia-Pacific region on the same day.

HONG Kong yesterday detected a strain of swine flu that was resistant to Tamiflu, the main anti-viral flu drug, the health department reported on its website.

THE World Health Organisation and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community are supporting Fiji's response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic, with financial help from Australia and New Zealand.

Britain warned it could face more than 100,000 daily cases of swine flu and the United States called a meeting of top officials as governments grappled on Friday with a resurgent swine flu pandemic.

More than 100,000 people per day could be diagnosed with swine flu by next month, health chiefs said.

TOKYO - Japan has confirmed its first case of a genetic mutation of the new H1N1 flu virus that shows resistance to Tamiflu , the main antiviral flu drug, a health ministry official said on Thursday.

Comment about "Japan finds case of H1N1 resistant to Tamiflu " Phone Name Comment 0 Thursday, 2nd July 2009 - 17:48CET Japan finds case of H1N1 resistant to Tamiflu Reuters Japan has confirmed its first case of a genetic mutation of the new H1N1 influenza that shows resistance to Tamiflu, the main antiviral flu drug, a health ministry official said ...

There's new information on the ongoing H1N1 Flu pandemic. It's been months since major reports regarding the virus, but there's new word that a strain of H1N1 has become resistant to drugs.

The Department of Health has distributed at least 5,000 tablets of Tamiflu for government hospitals and rural health units in Region 12 as part of its continuing campaign against the spread of influenza A or swine flu virus in the country.

As health care professionals brace for the spread of the swine flu, they advise patients to use a variety of over-the-counter medicines or prescription drugs Tamiflu and Relenza.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has announced it is launching a programme to produce and store anti-flu drug Tamiflu pandemic stockpiles for developing countries at a sharply discounted price.

Kenya's health authorities said on Monday they have stepped-up surveillance at all entry following the confirmation of the first H1N1 flu case in the country.

A nine-year-old girl has died after contracting swine flu, it emerged yesterday, as the H1N1 virus showed signs of becoming resistant to drug treatments.

A 33-year-old Clark County man who died Sunday of the H1N1 virus was not diagnosed until well into his 13-day hospitalization, the state's chief health officer revealed Monday.

With a worldwide pandemic under way and more than a million Americans sickened by the new swine flu, the special nature of this disease is becoming better understood.

Swine flu patients in Mexico were young and many were healthy before developing severe infections, doctors reported on Monday.