Thanks for the update BurbankKarl.
I appreciate it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1494292/posts
"Bird flu 'resistant to main drug'"
CNN (Reuters) ^ | 9/30/2005
Posted on 09/30/2005 9:26:51 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Experts in Hong Kong said on Friday that the human H5N1 strain which surfaced in northern Vietnam this year had proved to be resistant to Tamiflu, a powerful antiviral drug which goes by the generic name, oseltamivir.
They urged drug manufacturers to make more effective versions of Relenza, another antiviral that is also known to be effective in battling the much feared H5N1. Relenza is inhaled.
"There are now resistant H5N1 strains appearing, and we can't totally rely on one drug (Tamiflu)," William Chui, honorary associate professor with the department of pharmacology at the Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, told Reuters.
Chui was referring to the Tamiflu-resistant strain of H5N1 in Vietnam. Chui also said general viral resistance to Tamiflu was growing in Japan, where doctors habitually prescribe the drug to fight the common influenza."