"Resistance to Bird Flu Drug Reported"

From "Findings" in The Washington Post. (December 22, 2005)

"In a development experts called alarming, two bird flu patients in Vietnam died after developing resistance to Tamiflu, the key drug that governments are stockpiling in case of a large-scale outbreak. The experts said the deaths were disturbing because the two girls had received early and aggressive treatment with Tamiflu and had gotten the recommended doses. The new report suggests that the doses doctors now consider ideal may be too low........The study in today's New England Journal of Medicine was led by Menno de Jong of the University of Oxford."