H1N1 TREATMENT US

The CDC is keeping a careful eye on a mutation in some strains of the pandemic H1N1 flu that Norwegian researchers isolated from three patients with severe disease. … She added that the mutation “has no implications for how good the match of the vaccine is and no implications for treatment with antiviral medicine.” “But it’s important for us to continue to track influenza viruses and look for changes,” she said. The agency will be watching to see if the mutation spreads …

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PARIS – SWINE flu vaccines are still effective despite reported cases of mutations in the A(H1N1) virus, health experts in Europe and North America said Saturday. Bruno Lina, director of the national flu virus monitoring centre for southern France, said the mutation of the virus – blamed for around 6,750 deaths so far worldwide – came as no surprise. ‘It was expected, it was announced, and it …

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