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To: Cold Heart

I'm afraid if they are standard flu vaccines, and not targeted at the avian flu, they are useless for protecting against the latter.


17 posted on 09/15/2005 6:00:40 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: expatpat

I probably should have clarified. The medications they are talking about are not vaccines but medication when you actually have the flu. I did a quick look up and the main medication is called Tamiflu (oseltamivir) by Roche. As of August they had only 3 million doses. Production takes 12 months!! I guess they can't really make a vaccine until it mutates to the new form.


20 posted on 09/15/2005 7:02:30 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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