DIE KONKURRENZ will auch verkaufen: RELENZA heisst das zeug.
dafuer muessen natuerlich auch weltweit ein paar milliarden € ausgegeben werden....diesmal wird GlaxoSmithKline den reibach machen.
das haben sie doch schoen gedeichselt in vietnam, odrrr??
siehe diesen schoenen
NEWYORKTIMES -artikel:
Flu Strain Isolated in Vietnamese Girl Is Resistant to Drug, Scientists Report
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: October 15, 2005
Strains of avian influenza virus that are resistant to the antiflu drug Tamiflu have been isolated from a patient in Vietnam, scientists reported yesterday.
They added that the strains could still be treated with a second flu drug, Relenza, suggesting that it might be prudent to stockpile both drugs in the event of a bird flu pandemic.
The discovery was not unexpected and does not suggest that global efforts to stockpile Tamiflu to stave off an epidemic are fruitless, a World Health Organization scientist said.
The study, by a team at the University of Tokyo, is to appear next week in the journal Nature. The journal released it early, citing its "relevance to current public debates."
The scientists took virus samples from a 14-year-old Vietnamese girl after she had been treated with low doses of Tamiflu as a protective measure when she became ill after nursing her sick older brother. When the girl quickly became more seriously ill, she was treated with higher doses of Tamiflu and recovered.
Both later proved to have had very similar strains of bird flu. Because she had no known contact with poultry, scientists suspect but cannot prove that he transmitted the disease to her. While the virus is highly contagious among birds and has jumped from birds to humans, it has not yet spread easily from human to human.
Of the 10 virus samples the Tokyo team grew in the laboratory, 6 were highly resistant to Tamiflu, which is known by its generic name, oseltamivir; 3 were slightly resistant, and one was not resistant. Ferrets infected with the resistant strains were also resistant to Tamiflu.
The W.H.O. is building a stockpile of millions of doses of Tamiflu and has recommended that countries do the same.
