November 21, 2009
In the midst of CDC reporting in a decline in the number of H1N1 patients, what would seem like good news, is being kept in check by new cases that are resistant to the current popular antiviral Tamiflu.
By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY
Epidemic experts say they are investigating the apparent spread of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu virus [...]
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November 19, 2009
By Maggie Mertens for NPR
The swine flu vaccine remains scarce, but is slowly becoming a little less difficult to find.
Some people are getting the vaccine at doctors’ offices, some at college health centers, and some at public flu clinics. You’re best bet will depend on where you live.
As KQED’s Sarah Varney reports on Tuesday’s All [...]
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If H1N1 joins with the bird flu, pandemic may be much worse*
November 18, 2009[Commentary printed by The China Post* ref. post Playing Chicken With A Nightmare Flu by Alan Sipress The Washington Post]
When swine flu erupted this spring in the southwestern United States and Mexico, it had been 40 years since the last flu pandemic. The outbreak has dispelled any illusion that pandemic influenza belonged to a bygone era, [...]