Not a good sign in the fight against Swine Flu. Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that’s resistant to the drug Tamiflu. It’s the first cluster of that many cases seen in the U.S.
Health officials said Friday the four cases were reported at Duke University Medical Center in Durham over the past six weeks.
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this flu is becoming a big scare story if the news would stop hyping up every story they can scrape up people would become calmer and not so worried that the first runny nose they get that dont clear up overnight is swine flu,also jamming hospitals and drs offices for antibiotics that are not taken or used correctly will cause stronger variants of any virus nevermind the swine flu, we got to let our immune systems fight these yearly flus so we dont let these viruses get the chance to mutate and not respond to the very little antibiotics that do work.
This, coupled with the more dangerous mutation showing up in N. Europe may be harbingers of a bad Winter and beyond.