This year, Tamiflu isn’t working on the flu:

The Most Useless Drug Ever?

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The thing that seems to have health officials worried and scratching their heads this time around isn’t the spike in influenza activity–that usually happens sometime during February. The problem this year is that the drug most commonly used to ward off influenza if you get it –called Tamiflu–is ineffective. The CDC reported in January that influenza A (as opposed to influenza B, which isn’t as severe as the A strain) wasn’t responding to Tamiflu, but the most recent news is that Flu A is about 100% resistant to the drug.

Learn more about the problem here (includes a nice little riff on “How to know if you have the flu” at the beginning):

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