Australia reports first drug-resistant swine flu caseAustralian health officials on Friday revealed the country's first case of swine flu swine flu n. A highly contagious form of human influenza caused by a filterable virus identical or related to a virus formerly isolated from infected swine. resistant to antiviral drug antiviral drug, any of several drugs used to treat viral infections. The drugs act by interfering with a virus's ability to enter a host cell and replicate itself with the host cell's DNA. Tamiflu, but insisted the public was not at risk. West Australian West Australian commonly refers to people or things from Western Australia. Specific things to which it may refer include:
Chief health officer Tarun Weeramanthri said the case was rare and isolated, and did not pose a risk to the public. "There is no evidence that the virus has spread to other people -- none of the patient's family or hospital staff caring for him have contracted the virus, and he has not been in contact with the wider community," he said. "Experience from overseas shows us that these cases tend to be confined to be in childbed. See also: Confine to individual patients and it is not uncommon for it to occur in people who have weakened immune systems." WA Health said there have been 13 reported cases of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu around the world. Australia, now emerging from the southern hemisphere winter, has been hard-hit by swine flu with 169 related deaths among nearly 36,000 cases. The government has ordered 20 million shots -- nearly one per person -- of an under-development flu vaccine The flu vaccine is a vaccine to protect against the highly variable influenza virus. The annual flu kills an estimated 36,000 people in the United States. which is expected to be available by October. 
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