July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Tamiflu-resistant swine flu was found in a teenager who hadn’t taken Roche Holding AG’s best-selling antiviral medicine, Hong Kong’s health department said.
The city’s Public Health Laboratory Services Branch identified the drug-evading variant during routine surveillance of flu specimens, the department said in a statement today.
This marks the first known case of Tamiflu resistance in a swine flu patient not treated with the drug, which has been stockpiled by governments worldwide to fight pandemic influenza. The specimen was collected from a 16-year-old girl who flew from San Francisco and was intercepted by officials at Hong Kong International Airport on June 11, according to the statement.
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Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - update 56 - 1 July 2009 09:00 GMT - 77201 cases and 332 deaths.
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - update 57 - 3 July 2009 09:00 GMT - 89921 cases and 382 deaths.
Thats another 12720 confirmed cases and 50 confirmed deaths in 2 days. I wonder how many cases and deaths haven't been confirmed ??
Map of the spread of pandemic (H1N1) 2009: number of laboratory confirmed cases and deaths [png 190kb]
source WHO
![Map of the spread of pandemic (H1N1) 2009: number of laboratory confirmed cases and deaths [png 190kb]](http://www.who.int/entity/csr/don/h1n1_20090703_1100.png){kind=link}
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