Tamiflu-Resistant H1N1 Cluster Reported

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Published Nov. 20, 2009 at 2:47 p.m.
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Cases of 4 N.C. Patients Show Swine Flu Virus May be Mutating ...

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'Drug resistant' swine flu probed

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Published Nov. 20, 2009 at 9:49 a.m.

Health officials in Cardiff investigate the possible person-to-person spread of a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu ...

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Overuse of antivirals could make H1N1 pandemic even worse

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Published Aug. 24, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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Tamiflu and Relenza are key to fighting the flu virus. But medical authorities warn: Use only when needed, and use them correctly ... Indiscriminate use of antiviral medications to prevent and treat influenza could ease the way for drug-resistant strains of the novel H1N1 virus, or swine flu, to emerge, public health officials warn -- making the fight against a pandemic that much harder ...

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Pregnancy Raises Swine Flu Death Risk

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Published July 29, 2009 at 4:05 a.m.

CDC: Healthy pregnant women are at high risk of hospitalization and death from H1N1 swine flu. Tamiflu or Relenza is recommended for pregnant women with flu symptoms ...

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Tamiflu approved for Canadian babies

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Published July 23, 2009 at 3:01 p.m.

Canadian infants under one year old who are sick with the flu may receive the antiviral drug Tamiflu, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced Thursday under new swine flu pandemic guidelines ... The Pu ...

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WHO's advice: Just assume it's swine flu

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Published July 8, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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The World Health Organization will recommend that nations curtail efforts to confirm swine flu cases and assume the H1N1 virus is the culprit. Meanwhile, resistance to antiviral drug Tamiflu is seen ... As the World Health Organization prepares to recommend that most countries assume that their flu cases are the result of the novel H1N1 swine flu virus, officials are seeing the first signs of resistance to the commonly used antiviral drug Tamiflu -- though so far none that are particularly

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Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu in U.S.?

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Published July 7, 2009 at 5:34 p.m.

A teenage girl traveling from San Francisco was found to be carrying Tamiflu-resistant swine flu after triggering a temperature-monitoring device in the Hong Kong airport ...

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Swine flu 'shows drug resistance'

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Published June 29, 2009 at 11:15 a.m.

Experts report the first case of swine flu that is resistant to tamiflu - the main drug being used to fight the pandemic ...

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CITY CAN HANDLE 1 MIL ILL

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Published May 1, 2009 at 9:15 a.m.

The city can treat more than 1 million New Yorkers with drugs if the swine-flu outbreak gets much worse, officials said yesterday ... "Within hours, we could stock every hospital in New York City with enough Tamiflu to treat every severely ill ...

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Swine Flu: Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of Medical Products and Devices

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Published April 29, 2009 at 1:45 a.m.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in response to requests from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has issued Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) to make available to public health and medical personnel important diagnostic and therapeutic tools to identify and respond to the swine flu virus under certain circumstances. The agency issued these EUAs for the use of certain Relenza and Tamiflu antiviral products, and for the rRT-PCR Swine Flu Panel diagnostic test ...

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