flu

Evolution in Action

by: Natasha Chart

Tue Mar 03, 2009 at 10:00

I was tempted by a book the other day, its title was "Why Evolution Is True". Last night, I read the short version of that book in a news story entitled, "Resistance to flu drug widespread in U.S. - study":

Virtually all cases of the most common strain of flu circulating in the United States now resist the main drug used to treat it, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday.

CDC researchers said 98 percent of all flu samples from the H1N1 strain were resistant to Roche AG's ... Tamiflu, a pill that can both treat flu and prevent infection. ... Last flu season, only 19 percent of H1N1 viruses tested were Tamiflu-resistant, Dr. Nila Dharan and colleagues at the CDC reported. ...

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