[redgolum]

From CNN
Bird flu 'resistant to main drug'

Friday, September 30, 2005; Posted: 7:33 a.m. EDT (11:33 GMT)



HONG KONG, China (Reuters) -- A strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that may unleash the next global flu pandemic is showing resistance to Tamiflu, the antiviral drug that countries around the world are now stockpiling to fend off the looming threat.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/09/30/birdflu.drugs.reut/index.html

Not good.

[Iowa Granny]

here's the Free Republic link to the story which states the H5N1 strain currently present in North Vietnam is resistant to Tamiflu:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494292/posts

[Oorang]

Thank you both for that info and the links. Who knows if anything will work by the time it recombines and hits America. Ack.