WHO Says Initial Findings Show Swine Flu Responds To Tamiflu

The World Health Organization said Saturday initial findings show a multi-strain swine flu which has killed up to 60 people in Mexico is responding to Roche Holding AG’s (ROG.VX) flu drug Tamiflu.

“The information we have to far is the strain is receptive to Tamiflu,” WHO spokesman Aphaluck Bhatiasevi told Dow Jones Newswires.

An emergency meeting of experts is still meeting in Geneva to discuss what the WHO has termed a “serious situation” with “pandemic potential.

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