Roche says Tamiflu works in swine flu despite Denmark case. Roche Holding AG and the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they still consider Tamiflu effective against the A/H1N1 “swine flu” virus, even though a patient in Denmark developed resistance to the drug. [News Source]

Will two flus mix in Indonesia? Indonesia's first cases of the new H1N1 flu have raised concerns that if the virus spreads it could combine with the entrenched and deadly H5N1 avian influenza to create a more lethal strain of flu. [News Source]

Green activist turns spotlight on pig farms. The spotlight will fall on pig farmers once again next week, with the screening of a controversial documentary on intensive pork production. [News Source]

WHO says H1N1 virus is stable, not yet mutating. The World Health Organization said on Thursday that the H1N1 virus was stable and there was no sign yet of it mixing with other influenza viruses. But mutation is still a possibility. [News Source]

Raising animals and rising threats. Swine flu should be a wake-up call that spurs us to redesign factory farms that concentrate large animal populations in close confinement. Animal wastes and slaughterhouses create routine pathways for environmental contamination. [News Source]

German authorities warn of swine flu mutation risk. Germany's federal agency for infectious diseases said on Tuesday there were signs the H1N1 swine flu virus had started to mutate and warned it could spread in the coming months in a more aggressive form. Germany has 275 confirmed cases of swine flu, the third highest rate in Europe. [News Source]

Pandemic reality check. How many people this virus will sicken and kill depends, ultimately, on three things: the virus itself; the impact of what are known as "non-pharmaceutical interventions;" and the availability and effectiveness of a vaccine. [News Source]

Cold War-era radar sites to get $103M cleanup. It has taken nearly 40 years, but 16 abandoned radar sites that were part of the Mid-Canada line set up to monitor the Soviet air threat during the Cold War will be cleaned up over the next six years at a cost of $103 million, the Ontario government says. [News Source]

The pandemic is here. Those who dismiss H1N1 as a panic-fest are profoundly wrong--even the mild version in a country like Canada could kill thousands. And the nightmare scenario? That would be really scary. [News Source]

The WHO’s askew flu fears. How bizarre! The World Health Organization has declared swine flu a "pandemic," signaling governments worldwide to launch emergency response plans. [News Source]

Could animal surveillance have seen swine flu coming? The surveillance of animals for new flu viruses has lagged behind preparations for the human pandemics that can be caused by the bugs. [News Source]

Hog farmers wary of reporting new flu. It will be difficult to boost surveillance of hogs for the new pandemic strain of H1N1 flu unless farmers are confident they won't be penalized if the disease is found in their barns, an official with the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Tuesday. [News Source]