South Africa: No Need for Swine Flu Panic - SA Scientists

South African scientists have dismissed predictions of a possible public health emergency following reports from Australia that a small number of swine flu patients were resistant to the first-line treatment, Tamiflu.

Resistance is carefully monitored in South Africa and globally and in South Africa resistance remains at very low levels, according to Dr Cheryl Cohen, Head of Epidemiology at the Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis (CRDM).

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