Bird Flu Virus Found Resistant to Antiviral Drug Tamiflu in Vietnamese Patient
Posted on: Friday, 14 October 2005, 15:01 CDT
Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo
Tokyo, 15 October [dateline as received]: A team of Japanese and Vietnamese researchers has found a strain of bird flu virus that has demonstrated resistance to the antiviral drug Tamiflu in a Vietnamese patient, sources familiar with the matter said Friday [14 October].
The patient contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus responsible for an outbreak of avian influenza in Asia, according to the team. The team includes Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor with the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo.
Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific
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