Tamiflu, Oseltamivir News

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The Obama administration warned Americans on Thursday to be ready for an aggressive return of the swine flu virus in the fall, announcing plans to begin vaccinations in October and offering states and hospitals money to help them prepare.

Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 flu does not appear to be spreading in a sustained or worrisome way, a World Health Organization official said on Tuesday.

Swine flu resistant to Roche Holding AG a s antiviral drug Tamiflu has been detected in at least three world regions, raising concern the pandemic virus is developing immunity to the medicine, health officials said.

Public health experts throughout the UK and Somerset are now implementing new national guidance regarding the treatment and management of swine flu in the UK.

As the World Health Organization prepares to recommend that most countries simply assume its flu cases are due to the novel H1N1 flu virus, officials are seeing the first signs of resistance to the commonly used antiviral drug Tamiflu -- although none that are particularly disturbing yet.

Health experts say they can't predict at this point how widely a new strain of swine flu resistant to the drug Tamiflu will spread, or how dangerous it might become.

BECAUSE existing stocks 'are unlikely to meet the demand,' the World Health Organization is stocking up on antivirals and antibiotics.

A San Francisco teenager has been diagnosed with a strain of swine flu that is resistant to the common antiviral drug Tamiflu - an important milestone in the pandemic's evolution.

WHO: Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 not spreading A boy looks at a woman holding out a box of Tamiflu as she talks with journalists outside a school in Lisbon July 7, 2009.

In the first confirmed case of drug-resistant swine flu worldwide, a Danish patient developed resistance to Tamiflu, the antiviral treatment used for flu prevention and treatment.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the United States will provide 420,000 treatment courses of Tamiflu to the Pan-American Health Organization to fight the novel H1N1 influenza in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Date : Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:18:55 PDT PR-USA.net Sunday, 05 July 2009 Roche launches novel program to ease Tamiflu access to developing economies Tamiflu Reserves Program designed as a pandemic insurance policy for the world's developing economies Roche today announced the initiation of the Tamiflu Reserves Program for developing economies.

Comment about "Updated: Two Swine Flu cases being treated in Malta" Phone Name Comment 0 Thursday, 2nd July 2009 - 09:13CET Updated: Two Swine Flu cases being treated in Malta Doctors are treating two men for H1N1 Swine Flu in Malta, Parliamentary Secretary Mario Galea confirmed this morning.

Via the Japan Times : Osaka fails to report swine flu mutation . Excerpt: An Osaka health official found a genetic mutation of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu on June 18 - nearly two weeks before the "first" finding was reported in Denmark - but failed to disclose it, the health ministry said Thursday.

All cases of Tamiflu resistance are not created equal. So while the first three instances of swine flu infection with Tamiflu-resistant viruses were reported in the past week, it was Number 3, not Number 1 that put influenza experts on edge.

Friday, July 03, 2009 What is the link between the Swine Flu and seizures? What is the swine flu? The swine influenza A virus that has infected humans in the U.S. and Mexico is a novel influenza A virus that has not previously been identified in North America.

The U.S. government said on Thursday it will give 420,000 treatment courses of Tamiflu to the Pan-American Health Organization to help fight the new H1N1 influenza virus in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Thailand and Brunei each reported a death related to flu A/H1N1 on Friday, and at least seven countries reported more than 400 infections in the Asia-Pacific region on the same day.