<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fcd7788a-3e08-4d58-9c8c-523b8b42f153/F740B87D-77F0-45C5-806E-22423A51FE52/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/47971/title/Excreted_Tamiflu_found_in_rivers" href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/47971/title/Excreted_Tamiflu_found_in_rivers" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciencenews.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/47971/title/Excreted_Tamiflu_found_in_rivers"><DIV class="print" id="content_top"> <DIV class="content_summary print">If birds hosting flu virus are exposed to the waterborne pollutant, they might develop drug-resistant strains, chemists worry</DIV> <DIV class="content_authors print"> By <A href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/authored/id/18/name/Janet_Raloff" class="anonymous print">Janet Raloff</A> </DIV> <DIV class="content_edition print"> <SPAN class="exclusive print">Web edition</SPAN> : <ACRONYM title="6:24 pm" class="anonymous print">Wednesday, September 30th, 2009</ACRONYM> </DIV> <DIV id="content_functions_top"> <A href="http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic" class="icon"><IMG src="http://www.sciencenews.org/includes/com.confluentforms.codefluent.php/images/icons/grayscale-small/font_down.gif" class="icon" alt="font_down" id="font_down" /></A> <A href="http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic" class="icon"><IMG src="http://www.sciencenews.org/includes/com.confluentforms.codefluent.php/images/icons/grayscale-small/font_up.gif" class="icon" alt="font_up" id="font_up" /></A> Text Size </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/47971/title/Excreted_Tamiflu_found_in_rivers">The premier flu-fighting drug is contaminating rivers downstream of sewage-treatment facilities, researchers in Japan confirm. The source: urinary excretion by people taking oseltamivir phosphate, best known as Tamiflu.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/47971/title/Excreted_Tamiflu_found_in_rivers">Concerns are now building that birds, which are natural influenza carriers, are being exposed to waterborne residues of Tamiflu’s active form and might develop and spread drug-resistant strains of seasonal and avian flu.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/47971/title/Excreted_Tamiflu_found_in_rivers">For their new study, Gopal Ghosh and his colleagues at Kyoto University sampled water discharged from three local sewage treatment plants and water at several points along two rivers into which the treated water flowed.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/47971/title/Excreted_Tamiflu_found_in_rivers">Computer modeling has shown that OC should survive sewage treatment,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/47971/title/Excreted_Tamiflu_found_in_rivers">“high enough to lead to antiviral resistance in waterfowl,” Ghosh says. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F740B87D-77F0-45C5-806E-22423A51FE52/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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