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Rare drug-resistant flu variant identified in the US, CDC says
KRDO ^ | 6-14-24 | CNN Newssource via KRDO

Posted on 06/15/2024 6:00:00 AM PDT by dynachrome

A rare flu variant that has shown some resistance to the most commonly used antiviral treatment has been detected in at least two people in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Influenza viruses are constantly changing, but this variant has two concerning mutations in places that could lower the effectiveness of treatment with oseltamivir phosphate, known by the brand name Tamiflu.

“There’s active global surveillance going on looking for these mutations,” said Dr. Andy Pekosz, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “We want to know when they come up, because that could really have major implications for how we treat influenza.”

For now, though, experts say the threat is low.

(Excerpt) Read more at krdo.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; flu; fluvariant; ohnoes
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To: yldstrk

Generally they can’t. But if the drug is expensive enough....


21 posted on 06/15/2024 6:25:05 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Gender dysphoria is now a federally protected mental illness.)
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To: dynachrome

These idiots will never give up until they catch the Flu and die


22 posted on 06/15/2024 6:26:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: dynachrome

CDC...vaccines...global partners...CNN.


23 posted on 06/15/2024 6:26:13 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: dynachrome

24 posted on 06/15/2024 6:26:33 AM PDT by Allegra (Toss a zeeper in the Dnieper)
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To: dynachrome

Are the two people they found in the US from the US?


25 posted on 06/15/2024 6:28:13 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: dynachrome

The viruses are ramping up. Just imagine what it will be in September.


26 posted on 06/15/2024 6:29:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Leep

Good question.


27 posted on 06/15/2024 6:29:36 AM PDT by dynachrome ("God grant I don't outlive my wits.")
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To: FlyingEagle

Time to start exposing his HIV HORRORS, and get Bill Clinton to boot.


28 posted on 06/15/2024 6:30:09 AM PDT by GailA (Land Grabs, Poisoned Food, KILL the COWS, Bidenomics=BIDEN DEPRESSION. STAGNATION)
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To: Blueflag

New strain that mutated.


29 posted on 06/15/2024 6:31:06 AM PDT by GailA (Land Grabs, Poisoned Food, KILL the COWS, Bidenomics=BIDEN DEPRESSION. STAGNATION)
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To: dynachrome

Wuhan Institute working overtime???


30 posted on 06/15/2024 6:32:03 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: dynachrome

It came to my house, a sick heart-failing,DVT patient of 74 high mileage years and his tiny healthy wife beat it, praise the Lord, the meds didn’t help neither of us at all. The whole thing was about like the low-grade Covid 19-10 going around now. Big deal......


31 posted on 06/15/2024 6:47:25 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: dynachrome

They can KMA.


32 posted on 06/15/2024 6:55:27 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: dynachrome

The politically correct and affirmative action hires and leadership of the CDC can go pound sand. The CDC has proved itself to be no longer an organization that investigates infectious disease but instead an arm of the DNC.


33 posted on 06/15/2024 7:03:29 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: stanne

There are antiviral drugs like tamiflu that is used to reduce viral reproduction. I wonder how well ivermectin does at the same thing.

However this bird flu scaredemic is getting old already. If it jumps, my guess is it is sitting in a freezer ready to go and not natural. Supposedly from the last thing I saw it’s just 5 amino acid changes from human to human transmission. Amazing they know that unless they have made a change and tested it.


34 posted on 06/15/2024 7:06:59 AM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: dynachrome

Let the panic begin!


35 posted on 06/15/2024 7:07:39 AM PDT by null and void (“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up”. ~ Lily Tomlin)
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To: dynachrome

Trump will work with Moderna and Pfizer like he did before to save us all.
He continues to speak about the billions saved worldwide with operation warp speed.
It’s like Pfizer and Moderna already had the genetic sequence.
Regardless… vote trump for lockdowns and big pharma… let grandma live.


36 posted on 06/15/2024 7:07:44 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: rlmorel

The Pandemic Election time panic is coming—brought to you by Xi’s China and the CDC and the Democrats. We will be ordered to mask up and stand six feet apart soon. Mail in voting will be put in due to the health crisis. They may even cancel the election and Biden will be appointed President for life—to save democracy.(Like FDR) Trump will get the Huey Long Treatment—and WW III and Putin-Hitler will take the minds of the people off Revolution or Civil War. Nuke war wag the dog will dominate the media. Few or none of the nukes will be used, save for Kiev, and the UN will end the war with a payoff to China and Russia. We will say we won—and a statue will be put up to Biden. Harris will be president, pick Hillary as her VP then resign. She will pick Gen. Wesley Clark as her VP (the Hero of Kosovo) and rebuild Ukraine as she and Bill did in Haiti.


37 posted on 06/15/2024 7:17:00 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell)
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To: FlyingEagle

38 posted on 06/15/2024 7:19:36 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Wuhan Institute working overtime???

Or a non-disclosed US funded lab in Ukraine???

39 posted on 06/15/2024 7:24:31 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: yldstrk
Antiviral medicines work differently depending on the drug and virus type. Antivirals can:
40 posted on 06/15/2024 7:24:51 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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