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Two French men have died from the mutated swine influenza virus was first found in Norway.
Published Today 16:52.Updated Today 17:42.
David Vojislav Krekling
For exactly one week ago, the 20 november, sent the NIPH message to international health authorities about the discovery of the influenza virus with a common mutation in three patients with serious illness or death.
Do not know how it works
According to the authority's website on pandemic influenza, pandemi.no, knows not the meaning of the mutation.
What is certain is that two of the patients who have died of swine flu in Norway also has had the mutated virus.
One patient in the category seriously ill has also had this mutation.
Uncertainty about Tamifluresistens
This mutation may increase the virus' ability to influence especially lung tissue, it says in a statement from the state Health Monitoring Institute (InVS).
It's also that the mutation in one of the patients had an additional mutation that is resistant to the active ingredient oseltamivir such as exists in Tamiflu.
It surprised Bj?rn Iversen at the NIPH.
This is a mutation that many countries have described and which we found in three patients early in the influenza wave. We believe that the mutation may contribute or be instrumental in that people are a little more seriously ill, but it surprises me if it is resistant to oseltamivir. In Norway, we have not detected any viruses that are Tamifluresistent, Iversen says to NRK.
At the same time as the new deaths for the mutated swine influenza virus was known Friday, announced the World Health Organization (WHO) figures for the number of deaths caused by the virus.
According to the organization have swine flu killed 1 000 people last week.Thus the number of registered deaths had risen to 7 826 people in the world.
Published Today 16:52.Updated Today 17:42.
David Vojislav Krekling
For exactly one week ago, the 20 november, sent the NIPH message to international health authorities about the discovery of the influenza virus with a common mutation in three patients with serious illness or death.
Do not know how it works
According to the authority's website on pandemic influenza, pandemi.no, knows not the meaning of the mutation.
What is certain is that two of the patients who have died of swine flu in Norway also has had the mutated virus.
One patient in the category seriously ill has also had this mutation.
Uncertainty about Tamifluresistens
This mutation may increase the virus' ability to influence especially lung tissue, it says in a statement from the state Health Monitoring Institute (InVS).
It's also that the mutation in one of the patients had an additional mutation that is resistant to the active ingredient oseltamivir such as exists in Tamiflu.
It surprised Bj?rn Iversen at the NIPH.
This is a mutation that many countries have described and which we found in three patients early in the influenza wave. We believe that the mutation may contribute or be instrumental in that people are a little more seriously ill, but it surprises me if it is resistant to oseltamivir. In Norway, we have not detected any viruses that are Tamifluresistent, Iversen says to NRK.
At the same time as the new deaths for the mutated swine influenza virus was known Friday, announced the World Health Organization (WHO) figures for the number of deaths caused by the virus.
According to the organization have swine flu killed 1 000 people last week.Thus the number of registered deaths had risen to 7 826 people in the world.
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