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Flu jab warning as new strain emerges

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

DOCTORS urged people at risk of contracting swine flu to get vaccinated against the virus after five people were diagnosed with a strain resistant to Tamiflu.

• Vaccine call over 'new' swine flu - Metro.co.uk
• Tamiflu-resistant swine flu prompts vaccination call - icWales
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Panic over hundreds of flu deaths exploited by Ukraine's politicians

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

A flu pandemic in Ukraine that has triggered a nationwide panic is worsening this weekend with up to 400 deaths already reported. The arrival of the virus, suspected by the World Health Organisation to be swine flu but possibly a combination of the H1N1 strain and a respiratory illness, has paralysed the country's fragile health system and could even lead to the postponement of the general election...

Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster in U.S.

Hindu (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

ATLANTA: Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to the medication Tamiflu, said health officials on Friday. The cases reported at the Duke University Medical Center ...

• Cluster of four patients at N.C. hospital resistant to swine-flu medicine - Denver Post
• Tamiflu-resistant swine flu strain found in North Carolina - L. A. Times Dodgers Blog
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Drug-Resistant Swine Flu Emerges In Wales

Sky News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Five people have been diagnosed with a strain of swine flu which appears to be resistant to Tamiflu.

New court documents released in Michael Jackson investigation

New Musical Express (Free subscription) | yesterday

Records show his doctor bought the anaesthetic Propofol over from another state

Jackson drugs bought in Las Vegas

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Michael Jackson's personal doctor bought anaesthetic Propofol in Las Vegas and had it sent to Los Angeles, court papers show.

Does Tamiflu Cure The Flu?

OpinionBug.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Good question. According to my local news station last night, Tamiflu does indeed cure the flu. Yes, they actually said that. The news story was about the H1N1 flu deaths at Duke University Hospital. A male voice on the video said the three had a strain resistant to Tamiflu, a drug “commonly used to cure [...]

Possible Cases of Drug Resistant Swine Flu Documented in Wales

dBTechno (Free subscription) | yesterday

Boston (DbTechNo) - There maybe a new strain of drug resistant swine flu on the loose in the country of Wales. Health officials in the country have documented 5 cases of the virus which are resistant to Tamiflu, the main drug given to people diagnosed with the virus. Five patients at the University Hospital of Wales in [...]

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Raspberry Stethoscope (Free subscription) | yesterday

Thanks to those who tried to guess what caused the patient to code! We'll get to the answer in a bit. So, yesterday there was still no response at all. At noon, we began to rewarm him/her. Our rewarming target is 37 C. We are rewarming him/her over 12 hours, so around midnight, he/she should have reached it. It is a slow process because rewarming can be dangerous, as well. We do it at like .35 C per...

Expert warning over new swine flu

Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tamiflu-resistant swine flu which has broken out in Wales will become much more common as the virus mutates, a flu expert said.

UK News: Expert warning over new swine flu

icWales (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tamiflu-resistant swine flu which has broken out in Wales will become much more common as the virus mutates, a flu expert said.

Duke concerned about drug resistant swine flu

Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | yesterday

(By Sarah Avery, savery@newsobserver.com) A cluster of four Tamiflu-resistant cases of H1N1 flu at Duke University Medical Center has raised concerns that changes in the virus may make severe infections more difficult to treat. Three of the Duke patients died. All were adults, including two women and one man, and they had other major diseases, said Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease specialist...

• Tamiflu-resistant swine flu causes new worry - kansascity.com

Vaccine-resistant swine flu reported

ireland.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Five patients diagnosed with Tamiflu-resistant swine flu at a Welsh hospital could be the world’s first cases of person-to-person transmission of the strain.

Swine flu jabs 'still important'

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Health officials in Cardiff say a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu makes jabs against the illness still important.

Boak and Bailey’s Flu Blog

Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

We’ve been out of action with flu this week. When you’re on Tamiflu, you’re advised to avoid booze. That’s surprisingly easy because one of the symptoms of the flu is loss of appetite which, in our experience, extends to alcohol. In fact, the thought of drinking still makes us feel a bit queasy. Let’s hope that lingering [...]