Drug-resistant flu is found in Europe
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A small number of flu viruses resistant to Tamiflu, a top antiviral drug, have been detected in Europe, health authorities said this week.
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A small Japanese study suggests that influenza viruses are becoming resistant to Tamiflu, a widely used drug that eases the flu&#39;s symptoms, and that the resistance may be more common than thought.
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_ Health officials said the flu was &quot;widespread&quot; in the city on Tuesday after finding increases in positive cultures from local labs, sales of over-the-counter flu medications and the number of people reporting symptoms in doctors&#39; offices
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Scientists said on Wednesday they have identified a weakness in a protein in influenza viruses which could be targeted by new drugs to halt the spread of infection.
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Seasonal influenza is spreading widely throughout the United States, with nearly half the cases caused by strains of the virus that are not directly covered by this year's flu vaccine.
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NEW YORK  - Among young children with  influenza, virus mutations that are resistant to Tamiflu arise  in about 20 percent of those treated with the drug, Japanese  researchers report.
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The main influenza virus circulating in the United States has shown raised resistance to Roche Holding Ag's Tamiflu, already found to be less potent in parts of Europe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
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Roche AG&#39;s Tamiflu anti-influenza drug has been proven to work against H5N1, the strain of the avian flu virus that the World Health Organization says could be the source of a deadly flu pandemic.
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An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults. That&#39;s according to two of several
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LONDON, Feb. 3 -- The deadly H5N1 Asian strain of bird flu, which has killed 165 people since 2003, has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in eastern England, health authorities said Saturday.
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Bird flu virus may become endemic in parts of Europe, with ducks and geese more of a vector for spreading it than previously thought, the U.N. said on Thursday.
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DEERFIELD, Ill. - Medical products maker Baxter International Inc. said Thursday it suspended flu vaccine testing being conducted in Europe after more participants than expected came down with mild fevers.
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The European Union could face a 21st  century flu crisis killing millions of people if human and  animal viruses were to converge, the bloc's health commissioner  warned on Friday.
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The H5 strain of the bird flu virus has been found in turkeys at a poultry farm in eastern England, the environment ministry said.
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CHICAGO Oct 26, 2004 - Illinois officials have located 200,000 more doses of flu vaccine in Europe, but the state still hasn&#39;t received federal approval to import those or any other supplies of vaccine they have tracked down on the international market.
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US researchers believe they have found a weak spot in the flu virus that could be a target for new drugs.
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The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu found in turkeys in Britain last week &quot;may well be identical&quot; to the virus found in wild geese in Hungary, British officials said.