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.
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Generally they can’t. But if the drug is expensive enough....
These idiots will never give up until they catch the Flu and die
CDC...vaccines...global partners...CNN.
Are the two people they found in the US from the US?
The viruses are ramping up. Just imagine what it will be in September.
Good question.
Time to start exposing his HIV HORRORS, and get Bill Clinton to boot.
New strain that mutated.
Wuhan Institute working overtime???
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......
They can KMA.
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.
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.
Let the panic begin!
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.
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.
Or a non-disclosed US funded lab in Ukraine???
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