WHO's advice: Just assume it's swine flu

Published July 8, 2009 at 7:00 a.m.
353135-who-s-advice--just-assume-it-s-swine-flu 353135-who-s-advice--just-assume-it-s-swine-flu 353135-who-s-advice--just-assume-it-s-swine-flu The World Health Organization will recommend that nations curtail efforts to confirm swine flu cases and assume the H1N1 virus is the culprit. Meanwhile, resistance to antiviral drug Tamiflu is seen...

...As the World Health Organization prepares to recommend that most countries assume that their flu cases are the result of the novel H1N1 swine flu virus, officials are seeing the first signs of resistance to the commonly used antiviral drug Tamiflu -- though so far none that are particularly disturbing.





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