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Biotech / Medical : Avian ("Bird") Flu Stocks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cari who wrote (68)	10/23/2005 7:59:50 PM
From: Becky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 428

Caution: Resistance of Bird Flu to Tamiflu washingtonpost.com "A strain of H5N1 bird flu virus found in an infected Vietnamese girl is resistant to the drug being stockpiled by more than a dozen countries, including the United States, as a defense against a possible global pandemic, researchers reported yesterday. The new finding, while not unexpected, raises the possibility that oseltamivir, sold as Tamiflu, might be less useful than anticipated if resistant strains of the H5N1 avian flu virus become more prevalent and the virus gains the ability to pass easily from person to person -- a trait it does not possess now."