Can Tamiflu save us from bird flu? (Part III)

“Most stockpiles of Tamiflu are being acquired by rich countries, not the poor countries where a pandemic is most likely to start”

In Asia, H5N1 had already evolved resistance to another class of antivirals, including amantadine, by 2003. These resistant strains are just as deadly and contagious as non-resistant strains. "The Chinese have been incorporating amantadine in their chicken feed, so we have lost that as a treatment," says Robert Webster of St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. This also suggests that Chinese farmers have been fighting bird flu outbreaks since before 2003, although China officially reported its first outbreaks only last year.

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