As for the mutations to the virus of the flu notified by this organism, in the last report Carlos III makes sure that 80 cases of mutation have registered, 61 of them with the mutation 'D222E', detected in different autonomous regions. Of the rest, they emphasize 7 viruses with the mutation 'H275Y' that awards resistance to the antiviral oseltamivir, most used to face to the flu A and that the pharmacist Roche commercializes with the name of Tamiflu. These cases have detected to themselves in Andalusia (1), Catalunya (1), Madrid (3), Navarre (1) and Basque Country (1), and in all of them the epidemiologic compiled information shows that they received treatment with oseltamivir before to the detection of the resistant vine-stocks. Finally, up to the date also there have been described 12 viruses that present the mutation 'D222G', distributed in Andalusia (3), Castile The Spot (4), Galicia (2) and Basque Country (3). This mutation was detected for time first in Norway and in Spain it is the only one that has provoked deaths, one in Catalonia and other in Andalusia.
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Spain: total 80 mutations registered
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