Thursday, December 3, 2009
Netherlands reports mutant swine flu death
THE HAGUE — Dutch authorities said Thursday a patient infected by a mutant strain of the swine flu virus had died, but added that this was not the cause of death.
Harald Wychgel, spokesman for the Dutch Institute for Health and the Environment, told AFP that there had been a "minor change in the virus to make it resistant to Tamiflu," a key treatment for influenza.
"He died not because the virus was resistant but because he was seriously ill and caught the Mexican (swine) flu," Wychgel said.
The man, whose age had not been given, died Sunday in the northern city of Groningen, local health official Hans Coenraads said.
"We have carried out tests on the patient's associates to see if the mutation had spread but we found no such indications", he said.
Reports said that two more patients in the Netherlands had shown resistance to Tamiflu.
http://pandemicinformationnews.blogspot.com/2009/12/netherlands-reports-mutant-swine-flu.html
New Influenza A (H1N1)
Summary December 11, 2009, week 50
Summary
? In the last week the hospitalization rate for a laboratory confirmed
New infection with Influenza A (H1N1) decreased from last week, 104
patients have been reported this week against 227 last week. In addition, 8 new
deaths reported: a 14-year-old boy, a 39-year-old woman, a 50-year-old man, a 52 --
old woman, a 54-year-old man, a 58-year-old woman, a 63-year-old woman and a 63-year-old men, 7 of which have underlying disease. In the 14-year-old boy is no underlying disease demonstrated. 8 One of the deceased person was vaccinated against Influenza A New (H1N1) and 4 of deceased persons was unknown whether they were vaccinated against New Influenza A (H1N1).
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Until this week were 11 patients diagnosed in the Netherlands, including 5 this week, with a New Influenza A (H1N1) virus that is resistant to the antiviral agent Tamiflu (oseltamivir) that such patients are treated. Four of these patients are deceased.
Around the 11 patients have so far no laboratory confirmed cases of transmission of the resistant influenza virus found.
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