[Trust but Verify]

Shouldn't we have all been dead due to SARS by now?

[Dog Gone]

Avian Flu Surveillance Project

Actually there is some very encouraging news today to be published in tomorrow's NY Times. Scroll to the end of the thread.

[mel]

The ID doc where I work has told people to keep Tamiflu on hand, that when it is needed it won't be available due to demand. On a more encouraging note, rumor has it here in Memphis that scientist at St. Jude says he can whip out bird flu vaccine fairly quickly. There is just not any monetary incentive at this point.

[datura]

Nothing to see here, move along. It's all under control....Go back to sleep.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

SARS was going to kill us all, too. Now it's the bird flu, which killed half a dozen little old ladies last year. (They find a new case every month in the Asian jungle. NOOOO!!!!) The news media is always out to drum up hysteria about some cold or flu virus that's going to kill us all. Sakes, this is all so ridiculous.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The one drug that seems able to prevent infection and reduce the virus's spread is oseltamivir (sold as Tamiflu). More than two dozen countries and the World Health Organization are stockpiling the drug.

Got it, this about drug companies making a lot of money and, or course, the U.N. getting a healthy cut. No wonder the news media is trying so hard to drum up hysteria.