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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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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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 AIDS virus has hideouts deep in the immune system that today's drugs can't reach. Now scientists finally have discovered how HIV builds one of those fortresses Â and they're exploring whether a drug already used to fight a parasite in developing countries just might hold a key to break in.
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Flu viruses must be able to pick a very specific type of lock before entering human respiratory cells, U.S. researchers said on Sunday, offering a new understanding of how flu viruses work.
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The World Health Organization has detailed the first evidence that a person likely caught the bird flu virus from a human, then passed a slightly mutated version to another person. But experts said Friday the genetic change does not increase the threat of a pandemic.
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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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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 research team in Texas used a common antiretroviral drug to halt the transmission of HIV in lab mice engineered to behave like humans
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By Hu, Jun Asbury, Tom; Achuthan, Srisairam; Li, Conggang; Et al  ABSTRACT Amantadine is known to block the M2 proton channel of the Influenza A virus.
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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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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 World Health Organization investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated 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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An experiment to reconstruct the deadly 1918 influenza virus has given a new insight into how the infection took hold of its victims.
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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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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.