This year's mutated flu strain is resistant to Tamiflu

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Rumsfeld must not be pleased....=========== http://kaaltv.com/article/stories/S738527.shtml?cat=10226pdated at: 01/11/2009 05:23:36 PMMutated Flu Strain Shows Resistance To Meds (ABC 6 NEWS) -- This year's flu strain is resistant to Tamiflu.                        Doctors say Tamiflu is usually the leading treatment, but this year, it's not working.Health experts say it did work against the strain that spread last year, but now 99% of Flu cases they see, are not responding to it."This is unnerving. It's not as though we overused Tamiflu, but there was a mutation and all of a sudden this strain became the dominant strain all over the country," said Dr. William Schaffner of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.There's no shortage of Flu vaccine, and the other common treatment for the Flu, called Ralenza, is still available, but only as an inhaler. =====In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.