INDONESIA: Scientists worry bird flu strain is drug resistant

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Updated January 28, 2008 20:47:32

A nine-year-old boy has died in Indonesia of birdflu, bringing the national toll to 99. Indonesia has suffered the most human casualties of birdflu since the virus emerged in 2003, and now scientists are trying to find out why. Some believe the anti-virual drug Tamiflu may be less effective against the Indonesian strain of the H5N1 virus.

Presenter: Joanna McCarthy
Speakers: Dr Deoraj Caussy, World Health Organisation, Professor Anne Kelso from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Influenza in Melbourne

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