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A boy cries as he recuperates after surgery during "Operation Smile" at a hospital in Manila's Makati financial district October 26, 2009. Operation Smile aim to provide free surgery for about a hundred children inflicted with cleft lips, cleft palates, and other facial deformities over a period of five days in Makati. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo

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    H1N1 shows no widespread antiviral resistance: WHO

    GENEVA
    Thu Nov 5, 2009 7:26am EST

    GENEVA (Reuters) - Cases of the H1N1 pandemic influenza virus showing resistance to antiviral drugs are "isolated and infrequent," the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

    Health  |  Swine Flu

    "We see no evidence at all that there is widespread occurrence of antiviral resistance," the U.N. health agency's pandemic flu expert, Keiji Fukuda, told a news conference.

    Antiviral drugs such as oseltamivir, marketed by Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding as Tamiflu, have encountered only sporadic resistance from H1N1, known as swine flu, he said.

    (Reporting by Jonathan Lynn)
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