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January 13, 2006
Rimantadine and Amantadine have proven resistent to the flu virus now moving throughout the U.S.. The Center For Disease Control (CDC) has issued a warning to doctors not to use those two drugs to treat the flu. Instead they have advised using the two drugs in reserve for the Bird Flu, Tamilflu and Relenza.

January 12, 2006
Samples of the H5N1 bird flu virus from two of its victims in Turkey has detected a change in one gene in one of two samples tested. The mutation, which allows the virus to bind to a human cell more easily than to a bird cell, is a shift in the direction of the virus being able to infect people more easily than it does now.

December 21, 2005
Oxford University researchers report two cases of patients in Vietnam who died after failing to respond to treatment with the drug Tamiflu. The virus has become mutated and become resistant to Tamiflu.



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