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To: nickcarraway
...and has since recovered. The 16-year-old is a San Francisco resident and likely was infected in the United States, health officials said Tuesday. Her illness was mild, but noteworthy. She's just the third person in the world to be diagnosed with a strain resistant to Tamiflu, the primary pharmaceutical weapon against the new virus.

So the body beats what Big Pharma can't.

3 posted on 07/08/2009 1:36:57 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Yes, but that worked only with her body. Might not work the same way with the rest of us, and that's where pharmaceuticals come in to help.
4 posted on 07/08/2009 1:52:49 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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