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Tamiflu: Kids Increasingly Immune to Its Effects

  • August 28, 2004

Recent research about the use of Tamiflu, dubbed a drug of choice by the World Health Organization (WHO) for use against bird flu and in case of a human flu pandemic, has some Japanese researchers worried. After testing the drug on 50 Japanese kids, in 18 percent of the case, flu viruses had mutated to resist it. The research raised questions about how the popular drug should be used in a major pandemic, which experts fear could break out if the bird flu virus now endemic in Asia...