Mutant Flu Virus Is Found That Resists Popular Drug
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The World Health Organization said that a small but significant percentage of the main influenza virus causing illness this winter is resistant to the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu.
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Scientists say the government is failing to take advantage of scientific developments in the fight to prevent a flu pandemic.
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Australia and Hong Kong have joined North America and parts of Europe in reporting seasonal influenza viruses with increased resistance to the antiviral drug Tamiflu, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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Anti-viral drugs are offered to nearly 500 people following the avian flu outbreak at a Suffolk turkey farm.
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A strain of avian influenza among pigs was found at several farms, a discovery that could move the virus a step closer to becoming a deadly problem for people.
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German scientists have found a new way  to prevent the HIV virus from replicating, offering hope in the  face of the virus's increasing resistance to existing drugs.
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Local researchers have found that two new designer drugs produce strong responses in patients who&#39;ve become resistant to Gleevec, the leukemia wonder drug that heralded a new era in cancer treatment 3 1/2 years ago.
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The tiny tubes of FluMist quiver as they speed hour after hour down the assembly line, armed with an invisible blend of virus and targeted in a chaotic flu season at the many Americans cut off from a flu shot.
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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 flu bug appears to develop a rapid resistance to one of the drugs envisioned as a front-line defence against the next major influenza pandemic.
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A World Health Organization investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated slightly in an Indonesian family cluster on Sumatra island, but bird flu experts insisted Friday it did not increase the possibility of a human pandemic.
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The flu virus is becoming resistant to key drugs used to treat it, a study suggests.
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Researchers say targeting a protein may overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to drugs.
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PARIS : A key weapon in the medical arsenal that will combat any future pandemic of killer flu may be worryingly at risk to resistance by the influenza virus, according to an early Japanese study published in Saturday&#39;s issue of The Lancet.
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Influenza viruses are quickly evolving resistance to the few drugs on the market that fight them, but there are weaknesses that could be exploited, experts told a conference on Tuesday.
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Scientists get their first look at a virus attaching to DNA. Physical proof of this surprising interaction could lead to drugs that can stop some infections. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Fears of bird flu resurrected a drug for this small pharma, and it has some other promising compounds in the pipeline.