D225G Mutation Spreads

As I predicted, the mutation is spreading both here and abroad -

Maryland reports 2 cases -

Maryland health officials are reporting the state's first two known cases of swine flu resistant to Tamiflu. Johns Hopkins Hospital announced Wednesday that the two patients were treated there and have been discharged.

North Carolina has three deaths -

Three of the four patients infected with the mutated virus at Duke University Medical Center died Friday.
All four of the patients suffered from multiple ailments, which weakened the patients’ immune systems and their abilities to fight the virus. But it is still unclear what part the drug-resistant flu played in the deaths of three of the patients.

Denver -

The clearest sign of the marked rise is coming from the Denver area, which usually records about 20 cases of "invasive pneumococcal disease" each October. This year, it has had 58...
Most invasive pneumococcal infections normally occur in the elderly, but in the Denver cases 62 percent were in people age 20 to 59

It has also been spotted in several other countries - South Korea, U.K., Italy, France, Vancouver, Winnipeg

The Real Effect
This raises an intriguing question about how one goes about determining . Do the doctors actually test the patient for the bug, or if the Tamiflu doesn't "work", that's grounds for determining that the virus has "mutated".
If the latter is true, is this just a race to be the next novel sufferers to secure government funding and prestige?