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Drug-resistant swine flu found in Denmark

(The Associated Press) UPDATED 2009-06-29

International health officials are reporting that for the first time, a case of swine flu has proven resistant to the flu drug Tamiflu. The officials say that the strain developed in a patient in Denmark who was taking Tamiflu to prevent illness, and it has not spread to others. Scientists have been worried about the H1N1 flu swapping genes with seasonal flu or other types of flu and mutating into a more dangerous or more infectious form. Read full story >

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