More Concern For Tamiflu Resistant Flu
This could really be a huge issue if this begins spreading:
Health officials say a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread between hospital patients.
Five patients on a unit treating people with severe underlying health conditions at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, were infected.
Three appear to have acquired the infection in hospital.
They are thought to be the first confirmed cases of person-to-person transmission of a Tamiflu-resistant strain in the world.
There have been several dozen reports around the world of people developing resistance to Tamiflu while taking the drug - but they have not passed on the strain to others.
Just one possible cases of person-to-person transmission of a resistant strain has been recorded - between two people at a US summer camp - and this has never been confirmed.
We might really be looking at a scenario in the next few years where we could have a plague-like event. The news is always quite sensational about predicting these…
But also consider: we do have something similar to the plague as it is, AIDS, and there is nothing that we can essentially due to curb its advance perfectly. It has become a very uninteresting holocaust to the media witht he exception of Bono.