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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The parasite that causes river blindness appears to be developing resistance to the only drug widely available to treat it, researchers said on Thursday.
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Researchers at the University of Maryland are in a race to figure out how the avian flu replicates so it isn't transmitted easily within a community or more.
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ATLANTA, Feb. 1 -- Two small mutations are enough to turn off the ability of the highly lethal, wildly contagious "Spanish influenza" virus to pass from person to person, a new study suggests.
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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop the problem of bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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Could some people have a little immunity to the H5N1 bird flu virus? One study in mice published on Monday suggests it is, in theory, possible.
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Vaccines and drugs will not be enough to slow or prevent a pandemic of influenza, according to a U.S. government report released on Tuesday.
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The world is unprepared for an inevitable flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people, but profit-driven pharmaceutical companies are putting too little research into the development of vaccines, ...
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New drugs that are to be tested in connection with a phenomenon called RNA interference have excited scientists with their versatile and powerful ability to affect genes.
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STOCKHOLM/ZURICH  - Some seasonal influenza viruses are resistant to Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu, a study showed, but Roche said no doubts had been raised about the drug's power to combat any deadly bird flu 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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Scientists who synthesized two genes from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic said Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it so deadly.
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Some people have a genetic variation that may help them resist the human form of mad cow disease, a study in mice suggests. But when infection does occur the disease takes a different form
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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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Researchers at Queen Mary Hospital, London, have revealed that Roche&#39;s Tamiflu, an anti flu drug, works against the bird flu virus H5N1 strain (the most lethal one).
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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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The specter of a global influenza pandemic has loomed a little larger in recent weeks with revelations that Chinese researchers found the deadly H5N1 virus strain last year in pigs, a crucial link in the mutation of the disease to a form that can infect