Why a Drug-Resistant Flu is Coming for You

Michael van Baker — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:29:12 +0000

The team studied the rise in resistance to Tamiflu between 2006 and 2009 (2009 was a banner year for flu locally), discovering that their computer models for the rise of resistance would not conform with observations unless the virus was doing something surprising: "The extreme speed with which the resistance spread in seasonal H1N1 suggests that the resistant strain had a transmission advantage in untreated hosts, and this could have arisen from genetic hitchhiking, or from the mutations responsible for resistance and compensation."

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Why a Drug-Resistant Flu is Coming for You