The World Health Organization (WHO) reported today that 225 cases of H1N1 flu with resistance to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) have been found worldwide, and resistant viruses have spread from person to person in several clusters but have not spilled into the community.
Many of the resistant cases involved people with severely weakened immunity, reinforcing the importance [...]

An Alabama summer camp managed to contain the spread of swine flu by giving preventive Tamiflu to kids at risk and encouraging the use of sanitizers for hands and surfaces, a new report says.
Children are especially vulnerable to swine flu, also known as H1N1. The disease struck three boys who attended a two-week boys’ camp [...]

35-million people every year are diagnosed with the seasonal flu. Combine that with Swine Flu or H1N1 and that’s a lot of Tamiflu being distributed. Doctors are worried that the H1N1 virus may become resistant to Tamiflu and if that happens, doctors say we are in a lot of trouble.
“You will normally kill off [...]

Massachusetts and federal public health officials are criticizing some private companies for stockpiling flu medicine for employees and families.
Boston-law law firm Ropes and Gray is one company that made arrangements for hundreds of its employees and their families to obtain the antiviral medicine Tamiflu to protect them from swine flu.
They say it’s to protect their [...]

Ukraine made an urgent appeal to world powers for help battling swine flu on Sunday, after 60 people died from respiratory problems in a week.
President Viktor Yushchenko wrote to the United States, the European Union, NATO and Ukraine’s neighbours to ask for drugs and equipment to fight the spread of the A(H1N1) virus, according to [...]

Roche Holding AG (ROG.VX) said Monday that a patient in Denmark developed resistance to Tamiflu, but that the drug is still effective in the circulating H1N1 swine flu virus, which is causing the first flu pandemic of the 21st century. “Such a development had to be expected, and is no surprise from a scientific point [...]

EXTENDING the shelf-life of a drug is not a rare occurrence. Pharmaceutical companies routinely ask for this, backing their applications with scientific data that is counter-checked by regulatory bodies.
The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) approves 20 to 30 such applications yearly, including an extension for the anti-viral drug Tamiflu.
Roche, the manufacturer of the drug, had [...]

Free Tamiflu will soon be available to some uninsured Utahns, in an effort to stop the spread of H1N1 swine flu. The state has agreed that its publicly-funded stockpile of antiviral medication can be used to treat uninsured patients and their household contacts, as long as they have underlying health problems that put them [...]

Wellington has become the first region to place restrictions on who gets the anti-viral drug Tamiflu.
The region now has 51 confirmed cases, 16 of which were reported in within 48 hours.
Regional health authorities are confirming on Friday morning, that it’s likely the drug will be restricted to only the severely sick, as the number [...]

Disabled students from Pasadena High School have been given the anti-viral drug Tamiflu after one student tested positive for swine flu.
A 17-year-old boy from the school’s disabled unit has swine flu, but his 49 contacts have not being advised by the South Australian Government to stay in home quarantine. The principal of Pasadena [...]