A little something else to make ya feel gooder and gooder ....

[Stinky The Clown]

The flu is now outta control .......



Flu viruses becoming resistant to key weapon Tamiflu

By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY
Tamiflu-resistant influenza A viruses are now spreading widely across the USA, imperiling a pillar of the global pandemic-response stockpile, researchers report Monday.

The first in-depth analysis of Tamiflu resistance during last year's flu epidemic found that about 12% of people with influenza A/H1N1, one of three circulating strains, were infected with resistant viruses. One in five of last year's patients came down with A/H1N1 viruses.

More here:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-03-02-fluvirus-Tamifluresistant_N.htm

[notadmblnd]

1. Rumsfeld's Tamiflu was nothing but snake oil from the start.

[SoCalDem]

3. Yes.. I remember when it first came out, the placebo seemed to be as effective

:)

[Sequoia]

5. Those photos are just scary.

Like one of those 1am B black & white sci-fi movies from the early 1960s. I saw one called "The Creeping Hand" that was actually not bad and it had some good jukebox R&B tunes playing in the drug store.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Thanks for the reminder

to take my Influenzium.

[Muttocracy]

4. what? an organism developing resistance?! THAT's never happened before!

How could we have predicted (insert W era disaster)