"Indiscriminate use of antiviral medications to prevent and treat influenza could ease the way for drug-resistant strains of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, to emerge, public health officials warn -- making the fight against a pandemic that much harder," the Chicago Tribune reports. In August, the WHO "advised doctors that even those sickened with the H1N1 virus do not need to be given [the antivirals] Tamiflu or Relenza if they are mildly or moderately sick and are not in a high-risk group (such as children younger than 5, pregnant women and those with an underlying health condition)," according to the newspaper (Roan, 8/31).

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